An ode to a stay at Finca Arboleda

November 20th, 2011

Fiona who left here yesterday wrote this ode to her stay, we liked it!

 

Finca Arboleda In November

I never would have thought it

Expectations rarely high

Hats off to Mick & Pirkko though

And here’s the reason why

 

Seclusion, comfort, taste and style

It’s rare you must agree

I recommend you stay a while

And when you do, you’ll see

 

We came here in November

When the Olives start to fall

We helped out with the harvest

Well, just half a shift, that’s all

 

An invitation to the press

A mountain drive away

Then tasting Oil with bread and cheese

Amazing by the way

 

So all hail Mick & Pirkko

We’ve loved our Spain debut

I’ve almost finished writing so

Let’s get on with week two

 

I must just make a reference

To Stig the Dog, it’s true

In a certain kind of light

Looks just like a Kangaroo!

 

Olive Oil 2011 now ready.

November 20th, 2011

Well after much fighting with and learning how to make labels we now have our

2011 range ready. More text and pictures are here.

 

Olive Oil update

November 12th, 2011

Well we pressed the Olives yesterday. 760 Kg which gave us 194 litres.
I’ll post some pictures later.

It was a glorious warm, dry week, so lucky, again.

Olive picking in progress

November 9th, 2011

This years harvest is in progress, warm, sunny and 27º.

The 1st 2 days have yielded 609Kg, one day of picking to go and

then off to the press in Lubrin on Friday.

Time for a G&T I believe!

Perfect for Golf

October 22nd, 2011

We have 5 golf courses within easy reach of Finca Arboleda and with the weather still in the mid 20′s it’s a perfect time to make use of them.

A guest of ours, John Dempster,  won the mid week competition at Cortijo Grande last week. Which proves that even Everton fans can

have some sporting success!

Easyjet flights released, book up till June 2012.

August 11th, 2011

Easyjet have released flights up to the end of June 2012. Great prices  from around 30 euros each way.

Book early, book now, here!

Medieval market in Vera

August 3rd, 2011

Owww

Dish as seen on Rick Stein

Dish with Toms

Vera Church

Vera Church

Pan

Street scene

Asprodalba facelift

August 3rd, 2011
Close up Butterfly

Close up Butterfly

Asprodalba painted

Asprodalba painted

Asprodalba are one of our neighbours, it was the first centre for adults with learning difficulties in Andalucia. They do great work there, in fact, our tiled logo of the Orange trees was made there.

Well they’ve given themselves a fantastic face-lift as the pictures show.

Their logo is a Butterfly with a slightly damaged wing.

Actually it’s the back not the front they’ve painted so i guess it’s not strictly a face-lift but a ??

 

 

 

Painted Name

Painted Name

I don’t believe it!

July 21st, 2011

First Iceland and now an Irish bar, what are they doing to Vera?

paddy's bar

paddy's bar

Picture stolen from David Jackson’s excellent blog

How quick do we reply to your emails?

July 21st, 2011

A listing site, Rentalia, is publishing the average response time for owners replying to enquiries. We were astonished to see that only 25% reply within 48 hours. We will normally respond within the hour, if we are out it may take a little longer but if you don’t hear back from us it is because we haven’t received your enquiry.

Your enquiries are important to us so if you don’t get a reply, try again, call or text us, we’re waiting!