Kiersten Rowland

A Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog of mine and I hope you like the new look of it.

Christmas was a quiet affair here at our cortijo in Lanjaron, but we did manage to cook ourselves a proper Christmas dinner which was great. The dogs had the chicken that Richard didn’t manage [...]

So you would have thought after a cold day up Veleta we would have had a day off . . .  but no we went up another mountain, a smaller one admittedly due to bad weather on the high mountains of the Sierra Nevada.

We headed off to Trevenque (2079m) and arrived in time to see [...]

We had a very cold day walking up Veleta this week. We arrived at the car park to find it under snow but sunny, within minutes of leaving the car the sun disappeared behind clouds and never came out again that day. We put on snowshoes as the snow was so deep we couldn’t walk [...]

Who says Siberian Huskys do not get on with cats!! I think these 2 get on pretty well. In fact the cat Taz, thinks she is a dog, she goes outside to have her food with them, she drinks out of their water bowl, she plays with them, she even sleeps in the kennel with [...]

So off go the 5 of us happy campers for a 3 hour walk in to the Caballo Refugio. We intended to use tents to sleep in and use the hut to socialise in. As it turns out the walk in took 5 1/2 hours in deep snow. By the time we got to the [...]

Emma and I took the dogs for a day out in the snow in the Sierra Nevada last week. We all had a great time, photos and video attached to prove it.

Day 1
Leaving Lanjaron just after midday we drove to the ranger station above Capileira. There were 6 of us, Richard, Paul, Kate, Jackie, Nick and me.  Moving up through the forest and onto the open slopes above the forest we proceeded on the long, boring slog to the Mirador de Trevelez where we rested and [...]

2 weeks ago we had a good day in the mountains with a client of Spanish Highs. We went up Los Machos 3329m and then did so called “scary Ridge” and onto the Elorietta Hut which used to be a hospital where TB suffers were sent to recover in the clean air and also there [...]

Yes for those who know me know that I love cucumber and living in this part of Andalucia means you very rarely get the cucumbers that we are used to in the UK, so I decided to try and grow some! hmmmm this is what was found amongst the leaves this morning, my very first [...]

Today I pulled all of our garlic and now its drying on the roof terrace, not bad considering ive no idea what im really doing. I think there is going to be alot of garlic eaten in the next few months! We may smell awful but it will keep the flys away!