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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Mike McCarthy on Wednesday, December 16, 2009,
So i have been helping Ann here at La Casa Del Viento for nearly two and a half months. Working here has allowed me to try a whole variety of new things such as harvesting Almonds from the trees and picking Olives. These are two things that i am sure can only be done here in Andalusia Spain, or atleast its how i imagine the original Spanish culture to be. Living and working here in Lanjaron allows me to experience the untouched Spanish culture which i find to be rare in Western Europe.
Today i...
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