This week’s Sunday Sevens comes to you from Andalucia, Spain, where we are staying with my Auntie in her villa for two weeks. Was it really a year ago since I posted about this place?

1. At the foot of the mountains about forty minutes inland, the pool is a welcome feature and one they installed as soon as they moved in ten years ago. As Brits, it’s also the main source of enjoyment and the kids love it, spending all the time we’re at ‘home’ splashing around merrily.

2. A day trip to the coast at Mojacar where The Boys played on the beach for the morning.

3. We wandered the streets and ate lunch in a little restaurant in neighbouring Mojacar Pueblo.

4. A typical square in this pretty hilltop village. The Boys posed for all of ten seconds before running off to explore.

5. The views were amazing – this panorama shows how dry and desert-like Southern Spain is.

6. A meal with cocktails was part of a Flamenco evening at a local bar. Long term readers of the blog may recognise the dancer from last year.

7. The Boys went riding at Rancho Luz Del Sol in Partaloa again. This is where I broke my ribs last year when galloping through the mountains and falling off.

8. We played it safe and had tapas in the local bar while they were riding.

          

9. A family meal out at La Casita where No.3 Son’s dinner is bigger than his head!

10. Bombing in the pool never seems to get boring when you’re only eight and who needs trunks?

           

11. Another lunch, this time in El Rincon.

12. You’ll have to trust me when I say the paella was gorgeous, only I forgot to take a photo before it was all eaten.

13. The front garden is typically Spanish.

14. An old cortijo at the end of the road on our usual route to the bar needing a little t&c – the kind of property I’d love to have if we lived in Spain.

15. Back to the villa and No.1 Son’s girlfriend is asleep in the pool.

16. It’s a hammock in the shade for me, while I muster up the energy for a second week of more of the same. It’s a hard life!

Thanks to Nat at Threads & Bobbins for hosting Sunday Sevens.