L'Antic Moli

I've written about this restaurant on several occasions. This lunchtime we went there again having given it a miss over the summer months and had another superb meal. There is always an aperitif to begin, today was a taste of hot mushroom soup with something on a spoon accompanied by black olives.

For starters Margaret had the crab salad on toast, I had pigs ear in sauce on pastry with a fried egg.

For the second course Margaret had merluza, hake, I had cochinillo, pigling, followed by mango ice cream for Margaret and cake in chocolate sauce for me.

It never ceases to amaze me that we can have haute cuisine cooking at menú del día prices! Wine included! I think the simple reason is the chef enjoys cooking and creating special dishes - you are never going to get ordinary menú del día food here!

My latest 3D YinYang mobile

Actually I made this mobile and got it up and running a couple of months ago. The only problem is that it hasn't been really windy here this summer but this afternoon the wind got up and so I made a short video of the mobile in operation.

To see the video and appreciate the true 3D effect, click HERE.

I still haven't seen any other like it apart from the one I made a couple of years ago which can still be seen on YouTube. Other 3D representations on YouTube are computer generated - my mobiles exist.

Our pampas grass

We bought our pampas grass towards the end of the summer season last year,...

...potted it on and it has grown superbly producing 9 flowers this year and there is a 10th one about to come out any day now.

Yes, the plumes are called flowers and they look superb with our black bamboo behind them. Maybe they will get even longer.