People sitting enjoying the view over the Thames. I have had a good day walking about with friends and seeing my dentist friend this evening. I need a "gum graft". !!!!

  
Richmond Bridge over the Thames

  
Richmond Park

  
Teddington Station

The view from my bedroom window in Teddington.
 

Here we go, on my travels again. First stop Stanstead London. ! Kind'a wet. !!

  
This is Stanstead Airport. Singapore is MUCH better. !!

Here is a picture I took from the train into London.

Down into the London Underground Tube Train system. ! Victoria Line. !

 In the "Tube". !

Vauxhall Station for the regular train to Teddington.

Happy kids on the train.

View from train window.

 Definitely weird news. !!

A shopping "cathedral" in Kingston. !

More tomorrow. !

Enrique has made us a big Paella. This is his pre-birthday celebration.

Here are more pictures of my dog walking, following on from the last ones. !

  
This really does look like desert. !

We are above El Tessoro and looking down towards Almeria.

  
El Rio in the background.

Tomorrow I am flying to London. !

I seem to have had a very full week, lots of "doing" and lots of people visiting and somehow the "blogging" got a bit left out. !!

Robert, myself and Nasko took some very fine Ayahuaska on Wednesday night. I had a great connection to the Abuella, similar and as strong as my connection whilst I was in the Amazon.

Mirjam has been here and has repaired my "wardrobe" fitting zips in jackets, repairing clothes and making cushions. She is an absolute STAR.

Kes and Jamie arrived on Thursday. Kes has worked in the Peruvian Amazon bridging the gap between our Western views and Indigenous views of the world. Jamie has worked in environmental work in Costa Rica. They are renovating and painting all the outside windows. GREAT.

Lucas and his friend Lucas, (they look alike too), are off to San Pedro for two weeks. Nasko has left for Estapona on his "medicine" mission.

Robert is also here, that is Robert from Romania and Madrid. The dogs are well though Blondina has a "cough", happily she is getting better.

Here are a couple of pics from Tuesday's market day in Sorbas. !

I was rather late, so not many fish. !

 

and as you can see not many people. !

We have had a fairly quiet day today. Robert arrived this morning and also Honsa and Silvie are back from Leon with 20 kilos of great honey. !

Here is a picture of new bread making concept brought by Robert. !

  
Jar of honey at back right. !

 It works. The container is a kind of rubbery heat resistant thingy. !!

Yesterday  Peter, helped by Lucas and Ivi treated the Palm Trees against a "killer bug". The bug lays it´s larvae in the crown of the Palm and the larvae eat out the crown thus killing the tree. 

  
In these two pictures you see Peter drilling the tree and then injecting anti parasite juice into the tree.

We took Ayahuaska in the evening. We had a good ceremony. Here are a few morning after pics. !

This was a very "family" ceremony. !

We do need rain. Nasko is carrying a bucket of steam, and finally,  a last "group picture". ! 

We had a good "test run" on the medicine last night. Tonight we will have small "ceremomy" Muy Bien. Very nice smooth old vine medicine. ! Here is a "dark picture" of the fire. Nasko is invisible. !.

  
And a picture of the Garden which Lucas is cultivating.

Manana mas. I am off to drink more medicine. !

Hello. ! As usual life continues"full on", kind of business as usual, nothing amazing to report, however, of note is Nasko has come to stay for a few days and a liter of "medicine" has dropped in from Ecuador. Nasko and I will "test run" it this evening. !

House cleaning. As you can see the floor looks good. It is time to re-paint the walls.

Thinking about painting here is a picture of Peter and Honsa working on the little kitchen. Peter, Honsa, Andreea and Ivi completely re-painted it - loads of work and a great job. !

Here are a few more walking pics. It was a long walk. !

 Next section. I am getting close to the top. !

We need some rain. ! More tomorrow. !

Another sunny day. ! 

I had lunch with Frank at Bar Sol, and in the meantime Pedro and Lyla made a great Paella.

A few more walking pics coming up. !

 OK, I am going to go through the next gap. !

 This is a strange perspective. I have come up through the hole and I am looking down into the valley. Fairly high. !!

This the last level to the top. More tomorrow. !

I have been back here in El Rio for a week as of tomorrow. All is well here. Pedro and Lyla are down from Valencia for a few days. It' s good to see them.

Here are a few pics of my dog walk last Tuesday,

This is the start of the climbing part of the walk. I am going up through the V:

 Coming up

Walking through and looking up to the next level.

and here I am looking back down to the river. It looks pretty steep. It is. !

I'll continue the walk through and up, and over, and down, tomorrow plus anything "of note" from the day. !  Hasta la pasta,  David.

Here it is, a picture of the boiled porridge and shredded duck. Muy Bien. !