Calling Adams party of four

I'm embarrassed to say but we did the walk of shame tonight at Jerez airport. Finally we arrived early to an airport!!! We dropped our Europcar smoothly, had our little picnic in the sun outside, then after we'd checked our bags we relaxed upstairs relaxing and yes took Bella to the toilet three times. My friend Chris would say she has a Woolworths bladder, well she's still just 2.

After a while there was an announcement in Spanish and German something about Ryanair blah blah blah. We started getting it all together and moved downstairs, herding the cats. We put our bags on the X-ray machine and all seemed fine. I'll let W tell you about the flying pig! I had taken off my shoes, and any metallic bits. I hate getting patted down...But the man called me over once I'd picked up my bag, took me over to a table and pulled rubber gloves on. Now I was getting concerned but tried to appear calm and not at all guilty. Thankfully he made me open my bag not my fly and after some rummaging found a camera, a tin of olives, a couple of batteries and some stuffed animals. Phew. We then did our walk of shame escorted by a stewardess across the tarmac and down the aisle in front of everyone else. We then found out that someone else was being escorted off by the police for being drunk and disorderly so we were ok. Still embarrassing.

We're now relaxing in the BB hotel Hahn again. We'd left our winter gear here and are now swapping to warm tops and boots and thick jackets. Tomorrow we leave again for France, we land at Montpellier and grab another Europcar for a two week French adventure. I know it is a bit crazy all this popping from country to country and back but Ryanair makes it so easy. We've booked, well Wendy has booked a little house in a quiet village owned by Mary Moody (an Australian writer).

Yesterday we had a busy day in Guadix and came to really like the area. We'd all like to go back. Henry and Bella as they loved rolling in the dirt and climbing the hill above the cave house. Basically we could climb onto it's roof and up above it to the peak above the next cave house. Over behind us we could see a valley with abandoned caves dug into the hill they go on and on all over the area. It was amazing to look at all the caves around and imagine back 400 years when these were first made.