Another sunny day, even slightly warm & no one complaining of leg ache.  John & Carol’s friends Barry & Irene popped in en route to southern Spain in their camper van.

Today we took it easy and went for a wine tasting at a boutique winery in the valley. This was arranged by Chris & Yvonne from Jalon who came with us.  A German Peter Arnold and his English wife Helen ran it.  He was an experienced winemaker, having worked in Germany for 10 years,

and then created a new winery in South Africa where he worked for 12 years.

His winery had a very small vineyard of Shiraz, capable of producing 600 bottles.  Most of his wine production was from bought-in grapes from the area.  We tried several wines, a Rosado, three red wines and two whites, and eat some very good tapas.

On the way home, we stopped off and filled up our water bottles from a spring nearby.  The idea was to go back to Chris & Yvonne’s for coffee,

so we were a tad perplexed when they weren’t back when we (after our spring diversion) arrived.  Seems a local ex-Pat taxi driver had not managed to stop when they did.  We tore ourselves away from them and Scamp the dog and went home via the supermarket.

Back at the ranch Chef-prepared another Paella, this time with chicken & prawns; yummy.