Menorca Life blog

My loves, my feeling and my frustrations

IT’S ALL OVER

So much to say since my last BLOG but,where to start?

Christmas and New Year and the Kings are over here for another Year (thank goodness)
I can’t say I am sorry to see the back of them.It has got to have been the quietest most dismal one I have ever put in:(
Lets just say we won’t be doing that again.

Also I am not sure if I mentioned about our horses.

For many years now I have had a lot of back trouble and the past year or so it has progressively been getting worse.
To the extent that poor Oisinn had not been ridden for about 10 months.He just stood there in the field with Ginger and Rosario getting fatter and more unfit by the day :( He is only 9 years old and to me it just was not correct to leave a horse like him gathering dust so to speak.
Then there were the girls,Ginger who is no longer a baby and is now standing at 16/2 HH and Rosario who is the same height as Oisinn.They are coming up 4 years old now and I had to make the decision what to do.
They need to be broken now before it is too late.

I had to make a decision so, I contacted a very good friend of mine to see if he would like Oisinn for his riding school and would he break Rosario and Ginger.
He agreed and that is exactly where all 3 of them are now :(
I found the whole situation very upsetting as I had grown very attached to them :(
But life must go on and at least they will reach their potential with him.
He is a very kind man and will be exceptionally gentle in the way they will be looked after.
It seems very strange around here with out them but,even although I am so upset I know it was the correct thing to do.
I have been to see them a couple of times and the kids that frequent the stables have all 3 of them spoiled rotten.
At least this way they are all still together :(

I have been getting out and about with my photography here at the moment as, some of my clients want to see the beaches in Winter.
On Monday I took some people up to Cala en Turqueta and it was wonderful.

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So strange to be the only people on a beach that, in Summer you can only pray that you can get parking at.
Cala en Tuqueta near Cuitadella is an incredibly beautiful place and my photos could not possibly do it justice.
If you have not seen this beach before don’t take my word for it next time you are here, take a look for yourself you will NOT be disappointed.
We drove from there to a tiny little church that is extremely famous in these parts.It’s name is San Joan de Missa.

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A wonderful little place built in 1749 and still in wonderful condition.
I would just like to say I love my job. I get to get out and do things that most people would” GIVE THEIR EYE TEETH” to do and, get paid for :)
Now the weather has gotten cooler I hope to go to lots of other places that I still have to explore before the Summer rush starts.
Watch this space for places to see or take a look at my website www.rtgimages.com :)

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It’s Christmas Eve

Well it’s Christmas Eve here in Menorca and I for one am reeling feeling it….:(

On an up note for just one minute I have just come in from outside it’s just after 7pm and the outside temp at the moment is 14 degrees.Yes I know to you in the English spoken counties that that is almost suntan weather.
Yes it is lovely the dogs were running around me the horse are fed the ducks chicken baby chickens and geese are all tucked up in bed waiting for Santa.LOL
While I was sitting outside thinking how lucky I was to be able to sit at this time of year I realised that warm climbs are really not all they are cut out to be.
I am really missing my family I MEAN “really missing them”
Sitting here on this wonderful island is just not enough.

God bless Tony he is missing his family too but,he has decided to try and make something of Christmas and at the moment he is in the kitchen preparing tomorrows dinner.
Yes we have it all The full Christmas dinner but, that does not cut the mustard, the fact that neither one of us wants to be here.

There is nothing much to do here tonight as there is in say “ireland”
We would be with our family tonight and even go to midnight mass (LOL)
Today I put the tree up against all my choices I was not going to bother this year but,Tony decided Christmas was happening……………
But to say that it is twinkling away in the corner and it makes the place feel a little more cheery.

Sorry for the way this is written but my head is a little full at the moment.

All I would like to say is thank you all to who read this during the year AND>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Those of you who think the grass is greener on the other side it IS NOT it is just another mans grass.
This Christmas think long and hard at the people who surround you and, pray that you can all be together next year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS I am going to open a bottle of bubbly :)

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