Visitors And A Visit

Great blog ... glad you had such a good time ...
wonderful sign on the heap of grass !

llovely pics, glad you had a good time and the weather was kind - loved the sandcastle!

Great pictures in this blog Nariz. Really enjoyed it. Glad you had a lovely time. Love the window boxes in the Spanish pictures

Enjoyed your blog I love the way we both decorate our houses with flowers.

Good morning! That last photo is BEAUTIFUL, and what a lucky girl you are to have had sunshine in England as well as in Spain. Love Flatford Mill . . . I did a calligraphy course there many years ago and spent many minutes trying to work out where Constable painted his scenes :))

Beautiful - glad you had a lovely holiday and are now back home ready with your little secateurs.:O) Lovely pictures of a beautiful place. :O)

Great blog Nariz, the casas look really colourful with all the flowers, not sure I`d ever dare take a trip in that cable car although the views must be a wonderful sight to gaze upon.
Pleased you enjoyed your trips out, a big contrast between home and away but all lovely in their own way and of course the weather also behaving for you, makes all the difference.....

I really enjoyed that blog Nariz - what a beautiful part of the world you live in.
Also pleased that the weather held out for you whilst you were home visiting the family.
That beach certainly looks lovely and clean. Loving your sandcastles - isnt it fun to do. That last picture is beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your trips with us :)

Great blog, Nariz. :-)) Those hanging baskets are really gorgeous! I still remember them from my years in Spain! Shame there won't be any around in November!

Glad you enjoyed your break at the seaside! It looks sooo empty! Your sandcastle sculpture I suppose took you back "a few days" in time!

Ah! I so enjoyed that, Nariz. Spain was the favourite bit for me...but, I'm biased. Everything else looked wonderful...but not as much as your mountains...

Glad you had such a good trip away...and I'll bet that you're just as glad to be home...

Btw...are there any empty houses in your area?? :)

Thanks for your lovely comments guys! I have to say, the patch of decent weather in Britain did play a big part in my enjoyment! As did my grandchildren who helped me with the sandcastle. ;o) You're right, Balcony - took me back in time - a little more than a 'few days' though!

Sheila: It's amazing that the area has changed so little since Constable put brush to canvas. You can still look at Flatford Mill and 'see' his paintings!

Karen: 'empty houses' abound in this region ... if you've got the patience to wait for a large family of inheritors to make up their minds what they're going to do with the pile they've inherited, and the resources to resurrect a livable habitat from the rubble that ensues while they're procrastinating! Apart from that, there are the areas where building took place during the 'boom' which are now almost derelict because they're in the wrong places; ie: houses but no jobs - or jobs but no nearby houses!

Thanks again everyone, glad you enjoyed my photos.

LOL...always tried to hide my grass heaps! Now I have a better idea...just post a sign! brilliant!
Wow...the cable car...and the pots...looks like veronica but had to get out my magnifying glass! my eyes can't see detail like they used to! Wondeful blog, Nariz.

Wonderful scenery, especially Flatford Mill. I've always wanted to see it but will have to rely on photos now.
I'm pleased you enjoyed :o)

Thanks Lori and Hywel. :o)

Oh, Nariz...I love it here, but every time we go to the Basque Lands I don't want to come home...

We have the same inheritance problems here. A law of "majority" was passed, recently...but, if there are an even number of inheritors and the decision is evenly split...it doesn't work!
Consequently, we have whole villages falling into delapidation...and the young locals don't want to renovate ancient, falling-down ruins, because, when they eventually get them, they're too far gone.

We've even got woods which no-one can get to...they've been split so many times!!

It saddens me so much to see some of the wonderful old buildings here, particularly the large casonas, just crumbling into dust bearing ancient washed-out 'Se Vende' signs and knowing that they're never going to attain their once-glorious facades again. I've just returned from a trip to Britain and seen cottages that are hundreds of years old still being used as tea-rooms, museums, etc. If only ............ :o(

Ah bet the views from that cable car are spectacular. Went on a "tramway" as they called it in Canada and also went to the summit of La Mottorone in Italy on one. Certainly hair raising but the alternative is to walk for hours or miss out altogether :-) Pleased you had good weather for your trip to the UK.

The views from the cable car ARE magnificent - troubling for some ..... like Partner, who stood in the middle of the car looking at the floor the whole way up on our first trip. He's braver now but still only looks upwards! ;o)

One of The best picture I have seen here GOY:-)))

Thank you Junna. :o)