Here comes the sun

I have just returned from a week of vacationing in one of my favourite corners of the world. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology I’ve been posting the last few posts from here: Yeah, the same hotel where we spent a couple of weeks last summer. As part of husband’s grand plan of a one month sabbatical between jobs (he's working right now as I write this...), we went to Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands for a week. It was our first alone vacation for almost 5 years, so about time I’d say even though grandson was quite shocked we would go without him.

The weather was lovely; mostly sunny with just the right temperature and just a little too much wind (which made our arrival a bit too exciting to my taste throwing the plane this way and that for what seemed like forever). I brought stuff for every eventuality and with a weather forecast between 19 and 32 degrees Celsius you need quite a few clothes. No sewing supplies though, the back is still healing.

The hotel is built like a Canarian village with each bungalow a little different from the next one.

You’ve got to love a place with solar panels on every roof, beautiful bars on the windows and where the maid keeps folding your towels into swans.

I spent big chucks of the days here with a book and my iPod; husband of course brought his best friend, his computer.

I got totally fascinated by trees and textures during the week, but more on that later; got to keep the washing machine fed, you know.