My best friend is finally out of the army and ready to get some vacation time in so she spent just over two weeks with me in Spain. For her it was warm spring weather but now that I have acclimated I still feel quite chilled.
Since she rented a car it gave us plenty of opportunities to explore places locally. Quite close to where I live is a city called Mojácar. It is a small in population city... around 10,000 I believe but in the summer increases to 130,000!!! There are two parts, the old pueblo up on a hill and the new part which stretches out several kilometers along the beach. We drove around and explored both parts as well as enjoyed the most fabulous gelato.
Santi joined in on the fun during my birthday weekend. We headed to the Tabernas desert. This is the only desert in Europe and is where mini Hollywood is located, Indiana Jones was filmed here. We went to explore an old Olive Oil Mill. It was started in the 1930´s but was closed a few decades later and reopened to become what it is today. The old mill has been kept in wonderful shape for the museum portion. We did several tastings of their local organic olive oil and made some wonderful purchases as well. I plan to take my father to this same place when he comes to visit.
The almond trees are in bloom and gorgeous so we just had to stop the car to take a picture!
To finish of the night for my birthday Santi took me to a wonderful nice Spanish restaurant where we had the most amazing meal. I have discovered I am a big fan of fresh pulpo (octopus).
Of course to finish of the evening I ate some homemade banana coconut cream pie just like mom used to make. We also explored the province of Granada but because I have so many pictures to share I have decided to leave that for the following blog post.
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