Our garden and other lazy sunday things

We have discovered that our street is full of belaja acatsija, which is apparently called "false acacia". This is our first spring here, so it was a nice surprise!

And here is my berry/vegetable garden!

First one on the right is tomato, then raspberry, strawberries, red currant and gooseberry, little pots have herbs in them.
The rest of pics show what we ate today on a bbq :)

A mini holiday in Spain

We flew to Malaga on Friday morning and came back last night, but it felt like a proper holiday, we had different weather every day, warm and cloudy Friday, rainy Saturday and very hot Sunday.
First thing we do when we arrive is to have lunch in the port in our favourite fish eatery

We always have mixed fried fish, or Fritura Malagueña, which consists of baby squid, baby fish, marinated snapper and calamari rings, all deep fried. This a picture from last year:


In the afternoon I went to read on the beach, watching little dogs trying to go for a swim in freezing water :)


Saturday started out sunny and here is me having a traditional andalusian breakfast, toasted bread with olive oil and tomatoes:


The coffee is half coffee half milk, it is amazingly tasty and we have never been able to reproduce it at home. Must be some secret - this cafe is making all this since 1944, so they had time to optimize the recipes!

Next to it is a very beautiful pharmacy. Look at those tiles!

More antiques are found along the beach, where old boats are used as bbq-s for fresh sardines:

The adjacent restaurants are full in any weather

The rest of our pictures are here

Rowing in the Constable country

Not far from Colchester is a pretty city of Dedham, which lies in the heart of Constable country - so called because of an English painter John Constable, who made the countryside in this area famous through his paintings.

We rented a little boat here and the girls rowed it mostly into bushes and scared some ducks :)