Sexi Christmas 3

This advertisement on the side of bank building faced us most of the year across the plaza from our balcony--it says "Enjoy a sabbatical year." So we tried.

I am writing now in our last week in Almunecar, having left the blog for dead. But partly we were enjoying our sabbatical year. We want the reminder that the blog will give us of this year, and so over the next several days I will be posting a lot of photos and a bit of text about our life here and the trips we took.

We left off at Christmas time after a great trip to London, and now back in town before heading off for a Christmas journey to Paris, parts of Belgium, and Berlin. I took the opportunity to say a bit our town, so let me just mention one more thing before we get to Christmas photos.

Though some coastal towns like Nerja cater to the English-speaking tourists, Almunecar is still a town where you need Spanish. Because most people do not speak English, it is common to see t-shirts and other gear with inappropriate English words on them. For instance, these sandals in a shop window:

Who made these? Who buys them? What do they think the sandal says?

Anyway... Christmas. In Almunecar, Christmas means holidays lights. 

 

 

It's all very festive.

Colegio Rio Verde, the kids' school, also put on a big holiday show, with each grade dancing to, or sometimes singing, a song. This is one of the younger grades:

 

Often the song was in English, and so Charlotte, Eva, Cyrus, and Dominic featured prominently. They led the way on a schlocky song called "Happy Birthday, Jesus," a Christmas song I'd never heard before, and likely never will again.

There was also a performance by two of the Rio Verde parents unlike anything we are likely to see emerge from the Bexley PTO:

 
(They are Flamenco pros, well known in the area.)

Before leaving town for our holiday adventures, we had a little Christmas celebration in our apartment, including a visit from Joe, Eva, and Dom. It is worth reminding our readers that the main reason we came to Almunecar was to be with them, and so it was a treat to be together for the holidays.

Happy holidays everyone!