Going down a Storm

This week's Spanish lesson was Direct & Indirect Pronouns - difficult; by the time we've worked out where they go & in what order in the sentence, whoever we're talking to has given up & gone home!

Jeannie safely back on early bus to Malaga & flight to Exeter. Shortly after, a very large black cloud raced across the Med to Nerja, developing into a thunder & lightning storm. On the News later, we learned that a local man operating a road drill had been struck by the lightning & killed. A house in Malaga also collapsed in the storm (probably only the noise of the thunder knocking down a shoddily-built property!).

In Nerja Cultural Centre we enjoyed 'The Bucket List' with the wonderful Jack Nicholson. There was an audience of approximately only 10. It was in Spanish, with no subtitles, but easy to follow the gist; not a dry eye in the house. Later in the week, in a bigger audience, we marvelled at Javier Garcia Moreno's classical guitar playing. He seems to have at least 10 fingers on each hand. After the performance, we bumped into him outside the theatre. He spoke no English, but with the help of Sue E. we cobbled together a conversation & now he knows he has English 'Groupies' (a word he seemed to like).

On one of our terrific hill walks we spotted eagles (short-toed?), an Egyptian Grasshopper (3 inch long flying locust like beast), & stripey geckos. There was an varied abundance of flowers appearing following the recent showers.