Biking & Baking in Las Alpujarras

We seem to be on two wheels or four legs most of the time at the moment: either Steve is bombing off to Mecina to water some friends' plants and veggie garden, or I am disappearing for another 3 hour ride in the mountains!  Either way, it is quite tiring, and turning out for some evening entertainment is really difficult.  I shall manage tango tonight but only because it is a 'refresher' class and very local; Steve will probably just sleep and I'll find him on the soafa when I get in.

Today was very hot again but we managed to pick up a cooling breeze up above Bubion in the mountains.  They forecast rain but it has not appeared!  6 of us walked, trotted, cantered and galloped along the mountain paths...the gallop almost got out of control as my horse would NOT let another one past it, and just went faster and faster, whilst poor Inger, at the front by then, was having a hard time stopping hers at all!  But we enjoyed ourselves a lot...Inger and I are discussing a 10 day horse-trek across Iceland next year...

Tomorrow night we will go to Bubion for the 'book reading and other literature' event at Poco Picante.  Last time I recited a 5 line Lorca poem; this time it's 14 lines I think and I am getting them off by heart (in Spanish).  No point in doing it if not in the correct and original language. 

I can feel that I am drifting off (all the riding and sunshine) so mention of motorbikes and cakes will have to wait............