Yeah, I thought I was ready to come home but uh, no, I am not! This was the pool I was swimming in just last week... I am still paying for the sun exposure, but I gotta say it was worth it!
Tonight is the last night in this magical place we now love like no other! Jim and Christina are taking us to a famous restaurant to watch Flamenco dancers and eat more of the amazing food this place has to offer... I myself have acquired a new love of bread, eaten traditionally in the morning which is 11:00 am till 2... It´c called ¨tostada con tomata" or toast with crushed tomatoes...doesn´t sound like much but it really is tasty. Lunch is the biggest meal around 2 and then we all take a nap, no kidding till 5. The stores the eateries and the whole town rolls up for 2 to 2-1/2 hours...this will be a hard habit to break when I get home. I am used to getting up around 5 am, and haven´t gotten up till 10 around here...of course we stay up till midnight playing cards and laughing and it all seems so civilized! By the way, no "coffee to go" around here, you must sit, you must talk and you must enjoy the moment...or you look like a tourist, which I regularly! :)
So Carrie and I have pretty much already planned our next trip here, yesterday we saw the Alhambra, located in Granada´... It is incredible to think that this structure has been here since the 1200´s. The Moorish architecture is stunning and the gardens, while I have seen a few, were truly breathtaking in this setting!
Next trip is to Seville and Barcelona....then a train to MMalagato see this wonderful people! We had a great time running around in the city of Granada yesterday...found a shopping plaza and actually found our way out too! This is not easy when all of the streets look the same and no one speaks Eenglish..no one! We managed to pantomime a soccer jersey/football request and some great looking guy pointed us in the right direction....by the way everyone here is beautiful, really! We found our needle in the haystack and off we were to get more goodies, the shopping was truly an adventure and wore us out!
This was the last beach day and we can say it was the best...this water is something out of a postcard and the bottom is clear ...even saw a halibut while snorkeling... just cool stuff all day every day. I am so lucky to have been invited and my friends are so gracious to share this place so openly...it will not be soon forgotten,
I swear I am in Heaven!!! this is the view from our house in Malaga, Spain. We are in a beautiful part of Andalucía, on a cliff with the waves crashing down below. Shopping today was so much fun. We ate outside and people watched till our eyes hurt. The food of course is amazing and I have a new love of french fries or as they call them here CHIPS. Fried in olive oil and sea salted these are so tasty I eat them with every meal! The family we are staying with are amazing cooks and last night we had pasta putanesca with a beautiful salad, all eaten by candlelight outside on the veranda with a Spanish wine and an incredible breeze! We ate at 9:30 pm...I woke up today at noon, and only because Lisanne my friend of 23 yrs woke me! I am a bit better adjusted to the time but it is so fun to not know and not care what we are doing and when!
It´s now 8:15 p.m. and our hosts are preparing tonight´s meal.... steak with green peppercorn sauce. YUMMMM!
The people here are beautiful! Not because they are model like , but because they are so unique in their style and comfortable in their own skin.It really is refreshing.
Going to help set the table, and plan tomorrow´s dinner.... it´s the most important discussion of the day!
Join us for the Global Peace Meditation on Wednesday, July 9th!
Tomorrow, July 9th at 4pm (GMT) (8am PST) in Dublin, Ireland, Deepak Chopra and David Simon will lead a one-hour worldwide meditation for peace, harmony, and love on the planet.
Hundreds of participants at the Seduction of Spirit meditation retreat in Dublin will be joined by thousands more meditators around the globe with the collective intention of creating peace in the world and peace within. Our guests in Dublin represent six continents and 37 countries. This is truly a global peace event!
We invite you to set aside some time tomorrow, Wed, July 9. Find a quiet place for inner contemplation, and set your intention on peace and healing. Find your time zone here
If you are in the San Diego area, we will be doing two half hour meditations here at The Chopra Center. Please feel free to join us either from 8:00 to 8:30 am or from 8:30-9 am.
