Driving over lemons.......

The last few days have been mad. We have been up and down mountains, (and I mean that literally!) through rivers, up valleys, and in some places I never would have imagined. We went to see another family yesterday who live on the bottom of a river bed. They live in a really big truck and to say it was hot down there was an understatement. They were lovely and have a little girl of five. The children played all afternoon and we had a lovely time. To get to it though you have to drive first up the mountain and then down into the valley and across the river bed. I am so glad I got a 4x4! It is well needed here. So we got back late last night and went straight to bed and then we got up this morning and went off to see another family. If I thought yesterday track was tough I was in for a shock today. Up a gravel travel climbing in first gear all the way and peeing my pants we went. I never thought I would have done that in my life ever. However the view from the top was breath taking. We stayed for the afternoon and the children played and swam and it was the one year olds birthday so we had food and sang. It was lovely. We then stopped in on the village of Lanjaron to see what the park was like and there in the middle was a beautiful waterfall running all the way through. It was stunning. There was a group of people there doing kids crafts and we stopped and made a pompom with them. I got chatting to an English man who has been here 23 years. He said that there should be lots of work for an English teacher here as there isn't anyone doing it at the moment around here. He said that he could put me in contact with the local school and a language centre in Orgiva. The kids got on really well and we said we would meet up again on Sunday as there is going to be a fiesta in the park then with food and live music all afternoon. I came away really positive. I also met a lady who has a house to rent. She has said that we can have it cheaply to stay in for a while rather then staying in the camp site. So we are  moving the caravan there on Thursday to have a two bedroom house with....and get this...a washing machine, internet, and running water! It has two bedrooms in the house, but also a 7mt yurt in the garden. It is beautiful. It has lemon and orange trees in the garden and a couple of hammocks. We are going to buy a blow up pool tomorrow to stick in the garden and some more tarps to have where we really want loads of shade. It will give us loads more room though and be much cheaper for August then the camp site. I will take some pics when we arrive on Thursday. We can park the caravan and have the house, yurt and out side space to ourselves. It will be lovely. It is also in between the villages of Orgiva and Lanjaron, which are the two we want to spend loads of time in. We are going to head to the market on Thursday too, which is meant to be amazing. There is certainly loads going on here and I have fallen in love with it, and everyone is so nice here.  Lets see what the next week bring. We are all a bit travel weary and looking forward to having a firm base for a month at least.....On with the adventure.