Weekend in Georgia

I headed off to Atlanta last Wednesday for a 4 day weekend of shows - judging. It was held at the Georgia National Fairgrounds - which is a super location for a show - lots of air conditioned buildings, acres of grass and events for everyone - Lure Coursing, Agility, Obedience and Conformation. Great company, great dogs and just a super time was had by all.
We had dinner each night at Henderson Village, which is a collection of 19th century homes and cottages situated on 18 bucolic acres in the heart of Central Georgia and located at what was once a thriving stagecoach intersection.
They have this wonderful restaurant "Langston House" there, where we had a superb meal each night, with different dining companions each evening. The restaurant was full mainly with dog show people each night. Its well worth the trip, if you are in the area.

All the shows were well organized and the North Georgia Hound Show, was very well run and it was my pleasure to judge many lovely hounds - my placements were

Our New Toys

As regular readers of the Blog will remember, I have expressed dismay with our GPS unit - so we bought a LOWER priced TomTom, to replace the Garmin and you know what, it works better - satellite access is almost instant and not once has it led me astray, I LIKE it.


This week we decided to get a new sink, as I was fed up with the old sink staining and being hard to keep clean, so we got this cast iron sink, which has a low center divider - this makes it look huge. Whilst shopping we saw that you could now get a garbage disposal to use with a septic tank and so we bought that also.
The amazing thing is how quiet to garbage disposal is, you have to really listen to know that it's running. This is not my experience with the ones in many other homes.
So we are very happy with our new purchases.

Videos from Spain

I have finally put together some of the video from our trip to Sevilla, Spain.
We spent one afternoon wandering around the Alcazar which is an old palace surrounded by magnificent gardens. You can read more about the Alcazar here


Then I have finally managed to upload the edited video and hopefully everyone will be able to see it. Click here
this is followed by a continuation of our exploration of the grounds and other rooms. I really magnificent palace and so well preserved. Second part - click here

There is more to come - but will leave that for another day...........

Home Again and feeling great!

Its good to be home. Spain and England were wonderful and we really enjoyed the trip. I am just starting to work on sorting out all of the photos from the trip. The pictures actually go quicker than the videos....so we will start with the photos. We have a few from Sevilla and then the rest are from our day tour to the White Village town of Ronda, which took us to a couple of wineries along the way (I don't think they do great wine in this area!) and then some pictures from our walk through Ronda.

An upsetting night

For David, an unpleasant night as he got food poisoning and suffered! Don't know what caused it as we ate the same thing- except I did not eat the olives....
So while David recouped this AM I took the open air tourist bus around Sevilla and got to see more of this beautiful city.
We then flew back to London this afternoon and are overnighting at the Marriott at the airport before returning home tomorrow.


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Ronda and Tapas

Last night we went out for Tapas to a recommended bar, which was full of locals and had no English menu - so this challenged us a bit and the Spanish phrase book was working overtime - fortunately we arrived at 7.30 and the kitchen did not open til 8, so this gave us 1/2 hour to work on the menu and everything we ordered was delicious - from the razor clams to the mushroom torte.....
Today we took a personalized tour to one of the "White Villages" - Ronda - this was about 1 1/2 hour drive SE of Sevilla. It was a lovely drive on a super day. Our first stop was a wine tasting at a small boutique winery - the wines were young and I think they still have a way to go before they are top notch. Then we drove on to the outskirts of Ronda and visited vineyard #2, the wines were better here and even included Pinot Noir.
Then in Ronda we went to a Tapas bar for lunch - WOW - stunning food, beatifully cooked and presented. We had salmon ceviche, soy noodles and Iberian ham, asparagus and manchego cheese, Russian potato salad, curried chicken on skewers and a glass of wine ( the best today)
We then walked off lunch in the town, which is spectacularly perched on a hillside (pictures will be posted on my return home)
Late in the day we drove back to Sevilla.

Sevilla, Spain

This morning we did a guided walking tour of the town with a local, recommended by Rick Steves, she did an excellent job for 2 hours. We then grabbed a coffee and tapas before doing a tour of the Alcazar and the cathedral. Pictures to follow, back to the hotel to pickup email, charge iTouch and relax before heading out on tapas tour.
Tomorrow we have a day tour planned with a tour guide.


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