Visitors, Valentines and Visions

Valentines

We've run across 2 different Valentines lately. One is the cheesy, commercial American holiday and the other is the name of the tutor that we've discovered to help Clark out. Valentine's day is a non-existant holiday here in Spain although I did see a few people walking around with red flowers (mostly kids). Just for fun, I made the kids cards and gave them chocolates (who can resist?) and Nat bought me flowers as I have been feeling down lately. I also got a funny e-card from my step-dad and a care package from a dear friend in California.


Visitors
We’re looking forward to having some visitors in the coming months including Nat's brother who hails from Amsterdam, followed shortly by some fellow Seattle friends who are currently living in Cambridge (UK). Then Nat's parents, my brother and possibly some other friends from Seattle.

Master chef and musician

Beef, prunes and raisons

Moroccan Cooking Class
A fellow Granadian who hails from Rabat (the capital of Morocco) teaches cooking classes on the side while his real passion is that of a musician. The other night we had him over to teach 4 hombres (men) to cook a few Moroccan dishes and it was a festive evening of sampling various soups, salads and specialities of his culture. But I especially enjoyed listening to his CD of Spanish guitar music.

Back to the beach

Nat and his moules
(unfortunately
they were pretty bland)



Watching the fishermen 

Since the weather is starting to warm up a bit, we headed back to our local beach of Salobrena on the Mediterreanean (only 30 minutes away by car). We spent a lazy Sunday afternoon hanging out on the beach playing hide-n-seek among the rowboats parked on the beach, had a leisurely lunch of mussels, paella and calamaris and watched some local fisherman catch five pezes (fish) straight from the sea. We even saw a windsurfer checking out the February surf!

Coming up next: just back from an 8 day road trip around the Cadiz area and on to Portugal.