Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts

Sunday, April 4, 2010

SOUTH OF SPAIN, GO ON HOLIDAY

It has been quite a long time since my last posting but there is a good reason for that. I was in the 10 days seminar in Los Romanes a small village about 40min from the Malaga airport. It is an old rustic village that has been carefully restaured back to it's beauty. During year the owner has put lots of efford to these buildings with a help of some skilled people... We had the whole village for our groupe but you can rent a individual house for your family or friends and browse the Andalusian country side. The mountains offers you hot springs that I would one day like to experience in that natural beauty. The village is surrounded by olive farms and you are surrounded by nature even the small village or restaurants are not too far... An excellent get away for a week or even for a long weekend. Just enjoy all the photos I had taken while staying there...
Find on the side bar the address details to this beautiful place...

                                                 This is the view you get from the village

                                            The entering to the village by the parking area

                                                                     The view of the village

                                                             On the way down to the pool area

                                            The pool with a view surrounded by the garden

                  Last houses and the path way down to the olive farms...Nice walk down to the lake area...

                  And what a sun rise we had there the sky even changed the colour of the lake to the pink...

                                                      Olive trees and the nature walks...

                                                                      Cosy village feeling...

The flat where I stayed had a big kitchen and a dining area, with the fire place...

Each flat has their own name... The moon house...

A moment captured on the window...

One of the different windows...

So many different details in these buildings...

On the roof top...

A part of the broken pot used to decorate the surrounding garden wall...what a brilliant idea...

There are even some fruit tree growing in the garden...

One house had this beautiful stone wall inside...

Some of the houses still had the old ceilings that the owner could safe and restore them in their original
beauty...

     
In the lounge area we had a book shelve that was hidden behind these beautiful old doors...

A small plant pot on one of the windows ...enjoying the warm sun...

Birds in the early morning sun shine...

Spring time baby...

I was told that, years ago all the buildings looked like this, but you can see the owner has put lots of effort to this place but he has added plenty things from his soul too...

Friday, August 28, 2009

WALKING ON THE HIGH SIDE


Andorra is the hiker's paradise, some of the nicest walks can be done in the valley starting from Massana going up to Arcalis ski resort. Signs for the hikes can be found along the main road all the way up to Arcalis. There are some easy walk down in the valley and the most difficult one can go up to 2900m high. The natural beauty, rivers and lakes can be admired while hiking along the paths which are very well marked. Several springs with clean water can be found in the villages. We use daily the spring water, on the way to the grocery shop we stop to fill our bottles from the spring of Font de Mordell near by our home. Ordino is a small town in this valley, where the old and new building stands side by side in perfect harmony. This area starts just 10min away from the capital Andorra-la-Vella.