Issue #11

Happy Andalucia Day

Today marks six months that Inu-chan and I have been in Spain. We have moved away from our home in Arroyo de la Miel to a new place in Torremuelle. Torre means tower and for centuries the picturesque watchtowers ringing the coast of Spain from Gibraltar to the Pyrenees gave warning of attacks by the Barbary Pirates from North Africa. Torremuelle is an urbanization, a subdivision, of Benalmadena-Costa and it has its own train station just one stop west of Arroyo de la Miel.
There are no highrise buildings in our new neighbourhood and our lovely apartment has views of the Mediterranean and the hillside with Benalmadena Pueblo and the Buddhist stupa, from the front terrace. The back terrace is an enclosed jungle of vines perfect for a tiny tiger to hunt little lizards in, so perfect, in fact, that it came with a tiny tiger already there. I am presently trying to find her family. She is very sweet natured and wears a pink collar. She looks up the high walls and cries so she must have fallen into our back terrace.

Thanks to her I have already spoken with three different neighbours and they are Spanish, French and German which has led me to conclude that Torremuelle is a multi-cultural enclave.

I am attaching a link to Torremuelle´s website.   http://www.torremuelle.net/index.php?lan