Summer Seconds

Last Thursday we went on our second holiday break to La Vid de Ojeda. It's a tiny village in the north of Spain where Jaime's parents live, about 19km south of Aguilar de Campoo (a town that smells of biscuits due to the factory there...yum yum). We spent a few days there relaxing and being looked after. We went swimming in the reservoir (see photo) in Cervera de Pisuerga ( once I had got over the fact that there were fish and snakey things and we had taken the pedalo to a place where I couldn't see any water vegetation) and we went to the festival in the same town one evening. This year we decided against going to Santander to avoid the holidaymakers and we went to Liencres instead. It's a national park to the west of Santander, famous for it's sand dunes. The water was beautiful and crystal clear. (most foreigners tend to go to the Costa del Sol but they are really missing out by not visiting more typically Spanish areas like Cantabria) Once again I almost lost my pants tho! The waves in the Cantabrian Sea are almost as bad as those in Portugal!

On Sunday we celebrated Jaime's 38th birthday with a big family lunch and freshly made cakes. Lovely! We came home on Sunday evening with a dozen eggs from Jaime's mum's hens and fresh vegetables from her garden and a freshly made Tortilla.

Jaime went back to work yesterday leaving me to contemplate what I should do for the rest of the month now that I have the house to myself. I started with a big movie fest watching Finding Neverland and Million Dollar Baby both of which reduced me to a snivelling wreck on the sofa (clear to see why the latter film won best motion picture, best actress, best director and best supporting actor at the 2005 oscars) After the films I started cooking up a storm in the kitchen marinading chicken kebabs and making my first Tortilla with all the bloody eggs we now have from the last three visits to La Vid (damn near perfect even if I do say so myself).