The Best Thing about La Alpujarra?
Goats grazing in La Alpujarra
I´ve been back to the motherland for the past two months and it was lovely. I got to hang out with my friends, have endless cups of tea with my mama, browsed the shops with my sister and I ate all the stuff I miss when I´m out here: boerenkool, my mum´s meatballs, my favorite Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian place. Come to think of it, a lot of the last two months was spent eating 
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After a while I tend to forget what I love so much about living in La Alpujarra. Yeah, of course, the weather, the space, the country side, the easy pace of living, the tapas and the wonderful fact that they put beer mugs in the freezer so your beer is always icily cold. Small slivers of ice floating around, it´s lovely.
But the essence of living here, for me, just struck me: it´s goats. We live way up high on a mountain and if you´re quiet enough you can practically always hear those small bells singing as the goats do their daily walk across the valley. Add a frosty beer (and maybe throw in a fat guy with a beard) and, to me, it´s Christmas!
