This house is great! The town is Great! Fornalutx.
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| view from upstairs patio. |
It's a stone house, built into the side of the mountain. You get to it by climbing one or another flight of stairs. Up about 85, or down about 30, depending o where you're coming from. This house is on about 5 levels, every room seems to be on a different one. We have stunning views of this steep valley.
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| kitchen in fornalutx house |
We've walked/climbed around town. Bougainvilla , hibiscus, nasturtium, christmas cactus, roses abound. Instead of grass in the parking areas, they have orange trees. As far as we can tell, many are just public trees, and if you don't take the windfalls/super ripe oranges, they'll just be ant traps. So we are taking the windfalls. Cameron is making lots of juice. I mostly just eat the oranges.
Yesterday we went for a drive to Cuber Lake, and Bob and I walked along an aqueduct. The kids walked from the lake to Fornalutx, about 15-20 km. (we drove back).
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| cuber lake |
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| oak tree on Cuber Lake Trail - growing out of a rock! |
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And today, we all went to Port Soller, which is "Princeville" - rich and posh and expensive. But the water was lovely - there's a harbor which was a beautiful blue, and then we climbed over the hill to see the Mediterranean. It seems to go on forever. Seas are bigger across than rivers and creeks.
Elizabeth and I just went to Christmas Eve mass at the church. They speak Mallorcan here, which is a dialect of Catalan. Catalan is NOT spanish. Neither of us really understands it, although I can pick out a word here and there, and Elizabeth a lot more. So, the mass was incomprehensible, but the church was really pretty. The have several alcoves with altars, and a big one up front with 4 ranges of statues, all gilt. And paintings or tile designs in all the alcoves. For part of the service, a woman dressed in a fez and possiby moorish costume, holding a scimitar as a priest would hold a cross - up, and in front of her - sang some of the xmas story (at least, we think that is what it was).
pictures will come later.
# posted by Life with Andrea @ 10:25 AM
