Life At La Casa Del Viento And Around Lanjaron

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La Buena Vida (The good life in Las Alpujarras).....

Posted by Louise Campbell on Thursday, September 16, 2010,
I would have to say that my 3 weeks at La Casa Del Viento in Las Alpujarras have been the most relaxing and chilled 3 weeks of my life - and I wasn't even a client! I was looking to help out on a Spanish farmhouse for a last few weeks of sun before heading back to rainy Scotland, and arrived not knowing what to expect, after contacting Ann last minute. I don't think I could have been more happily surprised. With little white "casitas" perched up on the mountain, looking down over the town of ...

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Roofs, rain and rescuing trees - my time in Lanjaron

Posted by Joe Sharratt on Sunday, February 14, 2010,
With my phrase book still gripped firmly between my fingers I stepped forward from the back of the station platform and approached the elderly but robust looking driver and uttered, in my absolute best Spanish, the phrase I had been repeating to myself over and over for the last 10 minutes. Sadly the response it drew was not what I had hoped for; in fact the poor man looked at me as if I had just addressed him in Swahili. Undeterred I glanced down at my phrasebook, ran through the sentence on...
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Christmas Festivities

Posted by eve weir on Saturday, December 19, 2009,
Tomorrow marks the last of the Casa Del Viento Sunday Roast Lunches for the year. With the holidays approaching our lunches have taken on a traditional English Christmas theme. complete with roast turkey and ham, Christmas pudding, and even crackers! Being from the United States myself, I had never seen a real English cracker before. I've been enjoying them so much that I'm fully intending on bringing the tradition home when I return. 
 
Right now, we're all in the kitchen, listening to carols,...
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