Ok, I told u about the hidden spaces with fountains all over the place but in general there’s lots of green, a large swimming-pool, a comfortable room, a delicious restaurant and to top it off a spectacular mountain view… if one day u want to explore the Alpujarra region this is the ideal (luxury) place to start from.

What follows is a quick last little update of my relaxing week at Lanjaron.

While we were tanning along side the pool, the one thing that surprised us the most was how time still moves very quickly even when you’re busy doing nothing. Yes, it was a relaxing week, but we did move our butts a little. Not only did we visit the big town (read humble village) of Lanjaron, but we also visited other Alpujarra villages: Trevelez, Pampaneira, Capileira, Portugos & Bubion. Jodka & I remembered our previous trip to the Alpujarra a few years ago when we tried to find a monastery indicated in the “trotter” (le routard), but quite unreachable (for us) in the fog. This year we didn’t venture this far and contented ourselves with a little walk (read climb) in every village we went to.
Wednesday I showed Jodka & Audrey around in my Granada and at night we went to see a Flamenco show in my favorite Flamenco-setting in Granada: El museo del Sacromonte. Before the show we went to eat at Juanillo, a restaurant in Sacromonte which I would strongly recommand to everyone: great food, friendly service and a stunning view of the Alhambra.

Two weeks ago someone told me Ojos de Brujo (Flamenco Fusion group from Barcelona) was coming to Granada. So the next day I checked on the internet and indeed: Ojos de Brujo were performing at Atarfe a city 20 minutes (by car) from Granada! Of course as soon as I could I bought tickets and it was this last friday that the concert took place. It was incredible. Not only the music, singing & dancing of the group was fantastic, and also the public in Spain is so much more enthusiastic then in Belgium, but I got see Ojos de Brujo with Audrey & Jodka and with some people I met in Granada at Carmen de las Cuevas: Isabelle, Matthew, Sonia and Carolina.

And the last but certainly the least activity we did here in Lanjaron was a true adventure. We decided to go for a little walk on the mountain. I say little walk because that’s what it said on the hotel-brochure-map on which the walk was described. Anyway, it was an adventurous trip, since we kinda lost the path we made a path of our own and after a hour of desperation and thinking we’ll spend the whole day up on the mountain, we were so relieved to find the little wooden bridge over the river (Lanjaron river)! We still don’t know if this was the very bridge we were supposed to arrive at or if it was another one, but we don’t really care. It was a beautiful adventurous walk, just what we needed after al that resting & relaxing, But of course after this we urgently needed a little more relaxing and resting… of course

I still need to finish this story, but I’ll do that tomorrow! See ya tomorrow.