Happy New Year a wee bit into the new one already.
The purple flowers on the mountain have been out for a few weeks already. Surprising I have not seen the flowers on the almond trees yet as they normally appear by this time of year.
We have been having a couple of fairly quiet weeks buy things are going O.K. for us at the moment. We have a group bookings for the first and last weekends in February and I must get our Valentines Day offer onto the website as well as that will be happening very soon.
We have started working with a Dutch couple who send Dutch walkers to us. We have already received two bookings for them. We have a double group lunch happening today, one of the groups was here for New Year's Eve and they were so happy with everything, they are back already. And they are recommending us to their friends as well as we have already heard back from some of them.
I am pleased to say we will soon start offering another painting workshop with an artist in Ronda who sought us out last week looking to start working with us.
Our art gallery project is slowly starting to take shape as well. We have the new doors ordered and the bricks to put up a new wall in the gallery for a store room for the beds and things we have in that room now. All very exciting stuff. And we may have some art works already as well from an English painter we met recently who was having an exhibition in Ronda, very colourful work!!
For those of the readers here that look at my website, you will have seen a new addition to our Theme Holidays page, an offer of a Scottish Gaelic Singing/Language Workshop in late April 2009. Fiona Mackenzie of Dingwall Scotland is coming with another colleague to conduct this workshop and she already has one sign-up which is very positive! Something new and another cultural item in our list of activities.
We are going on holiday as well so the hotel will be closed for a couple of weeks from this afternoon, re-opening on 3 February. We will spend part of that time catching up with other business owners in the area, a few days a way and working on our gallery project.
And we have one more bird in our collection now, a love-bird, a type of small parrot. It was a gift to Ivan for the Reyes; it is very smaller and does not yet have all its feathers but still quite cute.
The weather here at the moment has been quite fine actually, the last few days. We have had lots of sun and clear skies making it springlike weather for sitting on the terrace to sip a beer. Last week was quite cold as in the rest of Spain and even now it is quite chilly at night but comfortable in the day.
Must dash now as the group will be arriving for lunch soon and still a few preparations to do so Cheerio for now!
