African shopping in Sal

Every morning the fishermen came back from their trips and you could buy fresh fish at the pier of Santa Maria.

And here is what you could find in the restaurants later in the afternoon, looks really good!

It was not really a lot that you could buy there in Sal, one of the Africans islands in the country of Cape Verde.

And the things you found in the shops was a little odd, and big!

Another street in Santa Maria and another shop with turisty things.

Bracelets and stuff like that where very popular, and could easy be find on most of the streets.

Sal, an African island in the sun

Just came home from a vacation from Sal in Cape Verde just outside the west coast of Africa.

Sal is one of the many island of Cape Verde, with a lot of sun and a lot of strong winds. But also besutiful beaches.

I stayed at the Salinas Sea Hotel outside the small town of Santa Maria. A modern hotel just a few years old.

Here is the lobby, of the hotel. Always full of turists, coming or going.

And one pic of the pool with a swim up bar. We where also very close to the sea.

As you can see here, the hotel bar and resturant in front of the sea.

One more pic of that bar, taken from the sea side. A really nice place to relax at, with samba music and a drink.

Here is the hotel beach, with the blue sea. A little too cold for me thu.

You could also sleep and relax in these, or just read a book.

I used these every morning, just outside the hotel, it is really good to stay in shape in the vacation too.

Then you have to eat, I had an all inclusive package on my trip. Here are the desserts one day.

The tiny village of Las Playitas

Just close to the resort of Las Playitas you can find a little fishing villiage with the same name, Las Playitas.

Here, in the withe washed villiage the time stays still, not much happens here and thankfully not much tourists is coming here either.

One of the resturants in Las Playitas, just by the sea. It is La Rampa and here I ate one evening, really good food too.

But it is really beautiful and ha an amazing view over the sea.

Here is one pic from the beach, you can see the resort in the back ground. Here you can read about what I have to say - in another blog entry - about the amazing hotel/resort of Las Playitas. 

Training at Las Playitas

Have been in Spain, in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura. I stayed at the training and sport resort of Las Playitas, just close to the old fishing village of Las Playitas.

Here in one photo of the resort, from a hill. You can see one part of the resort - the hotel part - in the left of the picture, the old town on the left.

This photo show you the apart hotel where I stayed, and the lovely pool. The resort had many moore pools.

I had my own kitchen. So I made my own breakfast, like in the pic, lunch and dinner and ate it all on my balcony, with a sea view.

In the morning, at 8 you started the day with a sun salutation. While we watched the sun rise. Here you can se a part of the out door gym.

During the day you had all sorts of training, here is a session with zumba, always outdoor and of course included in the prize.

Close by you have a tiny village - read more about it here››

I want one of these

This is an old photo from a trip I did to Mexico and Riviera Maya some years ago.

Found these handpainted sink's and I wish I bought one, even if it probably would have been difficult to tahe them home on a plane.

Happy New Year!

Have a really happy new year 2015! I hope it will be a good year with hope, happiness and love.

I had a nice evening here in Sweden, and really good food, here is the starter a lobster soup.

And then there was tagliatelle with lobster creme sauce, as you can see down here.

For dessert a yummy chocolate mousse, home made with marinated fruit on the top.

Hope you had a nice evening too!

At home - inside and outside

Just relaxing at home just now after a day at work. It is still very much Christmas at my home as you can see here. And my cat is on the sofa, as usual.

And outside it looks like this. Cold and a bit of snow. But at least it is sunny!

Love this tree, it just wont die! Even if we had to cut of the big branches as they were falling on my grass and it was just too dangerous.