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We went for a walk yesterday and took our cameras with us since the weather was so good, I think it reached about 26° celsius in the sun yesterday, but still only 16° in the shade. Nights have been a little cooler, dropping to 4° or 5°, even so, it was a Sunday, we had nothing else to do so we took the opportunity to get some exercise.

The hills around here are quite rugged but there are paths everywhere, leading in every direction. Periodically you'll still come across donkey dung, which are still used by some of the older generation as pack mules. The other day we saw an old-timer and his donkey who both looked like they'd stepped straight out of the nineteenth century, but we didn't have our cameras with us.

The picture you see here is exactly what most of Andalucia is like, very rocky, very dry, the flora clings to the rocks with barely enough top soil to survive in. Despite this it's quite amazing the diversity of plants. Cactuses, olice trees, almond trees, daisies, irises, lilies, grasses, all sorts. Apparently Grazalema national park is home to a bunch of endemic irises and are protected species. We haven't seen any fauna yet except for feral cats, but we'll keep looking.

Here are some search engine optimization tips for Ning networks, which are relatively easy to get into Google's search results, the reason being that Ning itself is such a large domain and new networks simply need to be linked to from the Ning site to be found.

So, let's assume you have a new Ning network and want to promote it, what do you do? You could contact me to help you with promoting your site. I've had some success in the SEO world, and I make a substantial part of my income from SEO, but I digress, keep reading for some free tips.

Getting Your Ning Network into the Search Engine Index
First of all, most SEO experts agree that getting backlinks to your site is a quicker and more reliable way of getting the search engines to index your network. Backlinks are links to your site from another site, and the quality of these is determined by similar or complementary content, and whether the backlink comes from a site that follows the rules correctly. Read More

The BBC reported yesterday that the EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has announced plans to reshape Europe's carbon emission limits in an effort to fight climate change.

We're doing our bit as well, which might sound like not enough, but it's our little bit and I challenge readers of this site to disclose what they're doing to reduce their carbon footprint.

To begin, we've replaced all the lightbulbs in the house with energy efficient bulbs that use only 20w but provide as much light as a 100w old style bulb. Read More

This has been a long time in the making but finally it's here, a content first CSS only three column design based on ceejay's Pixabella05. Read More

One of our neighbours here in Spain has been very kind and spoke to his Spanish teacher about taking on a couple of novices with the result being that next weekend we hopefully get our first lesson.

Spanish like any other language is best learned in a total immersion manner, we have proof of this, for a couple of years now we've been trying to learn Italian with a book and CD, and honestly if I was speak to an Italian they'd probably ask me to revert to English since they might understand me better.

Before we arrived in Germany we had done the same thing, try to learn from a book and CD, problem is, the dialect spoken by the older people in Düsseldorf is nothing like the standard German being taught, and the same thing when we were in Berlin. Basically what ended up happening is family and friends had to try hard to understand us, but after a while things got a lot easier because we were exposed to the language and could emulate local pronunciation, we can even understand Bavarians when we see them on TV, but we had to be there to really learn the language. Read More