Pictures of January 23, 2002

As described by Jacobo...
This is the state of the house in Almeria in January 2002. The pictures were taken by my brother-in-law Jaime. The first one is the house from the northwest and corresponds nicely to one of the pictures I took this summer, so the progress is obvious. The next two pictures are of the large living room, both taken from the northern end; the first looks southeast and the second looks southwest and is taken from the dining room. The next two are taken from the veranda outside the upstairs bedroom, looking roughly northeast; they are similar to the one I took this summer but Jaime must not have had a wide angle lens so it took two pics to cover the same angle. The last one is the western side of the house with the well (round structure in the foreground) at right; the entrance to the yard from the street is between the well and the house. The yard is covered by a layer of pebbles to avoid dust; sooner or later it will have some vegetation but do not expect a lawn...

Ok, I give up. I will never post the pictures in the server or finish what I started to write about my summer trip, so here is a colection of pictures.

The first threes are exterior ("fachadas") from the south (main entrance from the village street and small windows to keep the sun out), east (from the street again) and northwest (from the yard).

The fourth is from the upstairs terrace looking northwest to the fields outside the village (the structure visible is an old windmil, a local landmark). Needless to say the exterior will be painted white...

The next three are shots of the coast nearby (10 to 20 km). The first is the beach that appears in "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade". The second -- an almost perfect volcanic caldera open to the sea in its eastern third -- is where the Genoese navy waited for the Spanish one (we are always late:-) before heading jointly to defeat the Turks at Lepanto, in a battle in which Cervantes lost one arm and the course of history was set. The last one was taken from a vista point and gives you an idea of the coastline and the lack of vegetation.

To complete the Almeria set I have added a picture of the *central square* of the village, so you get the full impact of the place...

The next three are from a tiny island at the mouth of the inlet where my father's summer house sits. We got there by motorboat (pictured). As you can see not too many folks to share the beach... even in the middle of July.

The last one is a father and son picture I like.