Just in case you thought it had gone a little quiet, I thought I should explain…. we’re all having a bit of a holiday. We had planned to close the wine cellar for a week during August, in order to give everyone a short break before the onslaught of the harvest. However, owing to the very early start that we had this year, there was simply too much to do, and consequently the closure was cancelled.

So we arrived at the end of October, having completed the wine making, but with everyone exhausted, and still sitting on pretty much their full quota of holiday entitlement. With Christmas (and 2012) fast approaching we thought we’d better do something about it, so we decided to close our doors for a week or two. Around this time of year there are already a few ‘festivo’ days, and so the obvious thing to do was to build a break around this, hence this rather belated holiday.

In fairness the weather has not been too great, after a very warm period during the first half of October, but a break is still a break, and it gives us the chance to catch up on things at home.

Talking about home, it’s really great living by the sea, especially during autumn and winter when it’s so abandoned. This photo was taken early morning on a nearby boardwalk that follows the shore – in winter this forms my own personal running track as I do my best to keep fit. I can tell you that you don’t meet too many Spanish people at 7.30am, they’re not exactly ‘early birds’ like me!

Just in case you thought it had gone a little quiet, I thought I should explain…. we’re all having a bit of a holiday. We had planned to close the wine cellar for a week during August, in order to give everyone a short break before the onslaught of the harvest. However, owing to the very early start that we had this year, there was simply too much to do, and consequently the closure was cancelled.

So we arrived at the end of October, having completed the wine making, but with everyone exhausted, and still sitting on pretty much their full quota of holiday entitlement. With Christmas (and 2012) fast approaching we thought we’d better do something about it, so we decided to close our doors for a week or two. Around this time of year there are already a few ‘festivo’ days, and so the obvious thing to do was to build a break around this, hence this rather belated holiday.

In fairness the weather has not been too great, after a very warm period during the first half of October, but a break is still a break, and it gives us the chance to catch up on things at home.

Talking about home, it’s really great living by the sea, especially during autumn and winter when it’s so abandoned. This photo was taken early morning on a nearby boardwalk that follows the shore – in winter this forms my own personal running track as I do my best to keep fit. I can tell you that you don’t meet too many Spanish people at 7.30am, they’re not exactly ‘early birds’ like me!