#9 Our Christmas in Spain! Nuestra Navidad en España.

in this episode hooray it's Christmas my friend Julia comes to say we have a great time going to meria to see the Christmas lights my Spanish friend Anna tells me how people in kisara Bend Christmas and when Rob comes over we celebrate together in the cottage and of course we're hoping for snow because we are pretty high up here before Julia arrives I need to make sure the cottage is lovely and warm [Music] [Applause] welcome back to cata Blue Hills [Music] [Applause] isn't it pretty it's [Music] beautiful no no no na we can't resist popping into a vintage shop for a quick look more of this coming in another video [Music] [Music] I don't know okay h I'll probably have to cut this bit of fumbling from my [Music] yes [Music] well you can't tell me it's better for you blood have a biscuit is if you end up having a biscuit afterwards after you've had the raisins and the orange and the apple and we go round a bend and nearly jump out of our skins that was a shock God I didn't expect to see them around the corner the next morning we go looking for pine cones to decorate the cottage [Music] on come on [Music] so here we are then it's cold outside probably zero isn't it m probably zero and here we are in the cottage lovely and warm but we've got some jobs to do so what are we going to do first are we going to decorate the mantle piece or are we going to make some lovely rustic Christmas decorations the decision is yours um we could do both with a with a glass of wine wine okay let's get [Music] wine you got a glass me as well where do I put the mic just poke it is that all right like that anyway [Music] do you want some don't tell that say come on then where's your glass okay come on then where's your glass you're going to have some I will have some we've only got one wine glass Haven bought any wine glasses yet so far that's mine okay okay look cheese it's actually quite nice I think very good I was expecting red yeah on M cheers Merry Christmas M it's quite sweet isn't it all right what have you been cup of [Music] tea got a half a cup of tea as well as wine only Rob would have a flamethrower to light a candle [Applause] [Music] that's these one's going up there yeah oh no disaster [Music] [Applause] a second disaster I have a go yeah show the [Music] camera really are we good we've collected foliage Pine Rosemary okay some cones cones let's get the cones excuse me make sure they don't fall over yeah make sure they don't or burn set Al light s Cas that Ros me looks a bit whizzed already doesn't it it's dry but that's good we can use it for cooking put it on the fire oh yeah that will smell nice I'm going a big one for the end see better days one last okay yeah now we'll make the decorations the little decorations to dangle up there as well so if you can you paint those red that'll be Fab and then I'm going to paint some little sticks gold and then twist them together to make little stars okay then last one here does that look about right y and then you got some of this if you want to put this on super okay halfway don't know does that look stupid no ristic Okay so we've done it all in a bit of a rush because we haven't got that long um Julia can't be here that long with me and it's abs absolutely wonderful that she is here um and it's not really it's not like all the lovely ones that you see on Instagram but we've made it it's our rustic it's all recyclable that's really important and um it's all from the garden it's all from the garden every bit of this is from the garden so I'm happy are you happy I'm happy cheers very good thank you that's okay and so my lovely friend Anna who I've known for a while who lives in kalis spara which is a long way from Al little cottage is very friendly with the owner of this lovely cafeteria and so ADW very kindly said that we can film some of the lovely cakes they've got prepared for Christmas however we could only come on Thursday and the dwya was little tiny bit upset because she wanted to show us all the wonderful cakes they've got made for Christmas Even better than these lovely cakes but they really only have them on Friday and Saturday but oh look at these look at those they look absolutely wonderful okay so the shelves are a little bit empty now o look at those I wonder if they're like R truffles a little bit empty so she's feeling a little bit embarrassed that she can't show us a wonderful wear a wonderful Christmas wear because obviously you can see by the standard of these beautiful cakes that this is a cake shop a very high [Music] [Music] quality we have ooh look at those chocolates of Extravert extra virgin olive oil pre leans o so it's very kind of her to give us permission oh oh see at those alra o onion almond very look see see oh [Music] look see made made on the premises the lady and her husband the lady and her husband make them all here the Cake Shop was closing early as the dwya was treating her employees to a special Christmas lunch so me Julia and Anna went to another bar to have a chat about Christmas in kalis Sp so this is my lovely friend Anna and and see and just wanted to ask some questions about how Spanish people celebrate Christmas okay she told me normally one side of the family meet up on the 24th lovely meal and then they go to the other side of the family on the 31st on the 24th it's typical to eat seafood as a starter and then lamb or possibly pork as an alternative sometimes families go to a little Hut in the countryside and cook over an open fire normally on the 6th of January families go to the main Square outside the town hall where there's a procession with the three kings and the three kings throw sweets to the children I ask Anna if she goes to church she says she isn't Catholic she's an Evangelical Christian so she does when we went to look at the lovely cake shop to see traditional Spanish cakes for Christmas so obviously I wanted to buy some for for for to keep for when um Rob comes out and we have our special Christmas dinner but the lovely owner wouldn't let me pay for them so she gave us these as a present so let's see I think it is oh no I'll turn them upside down and ruin them probably oh no let's see the upside down cakes upside down C woohooo look at that come on then right we don't need to save all of these for me and Rob our Christmas dinner but I do want to save I thought there were two chocolate ones no that's weird okay for a special pre Christmas cake what would you like which ones are these I can't remember what she said possibly honey something you going to try this one with me yeah let's eat it let's eat it baby is it good m m oh melt in your mouth like almond isn't it that's what's left you still got six well Christmas dinner dipping over the no we're not drunk obviously unless there's alcohol in the cakes So yeah thank you so muchas so far then we haven't had snow instead we've got Fields full of wild flowers but that's not to say we won't have any here's some photos of snow in and around of meria from places about 100 miles away from us thank you so much if you sent me a photo or a video right then uh so we need knives need potato peeler and we need oil and um black pepper can oh my goodness I'm not safe with that well we did have a knife an in between size knife but it got packed sent back to England on a road trip oh yeah and we have actually got one in between these two that's back in England okay and obviously we can't bring it back cuz can't bring it back yeah cuz Ryan a don't particularly like it having things like that in your own luggage no and and very sensible too all right then so uh who's doing what yeah do you want to peel the potatoes what I don't mind whatever so what we're doing today then is so um we asked our Spanish friend Anna um what is uh some something typical that Spanish people in the region of meria which is where she's from what is a typical Spanish uh meal for Christmas day and she said pavl pavl is turkey so we've got turkey and she said with aoya onions AO garlic patas tomatoes and pepper uh but we're not having pepper because you don't like it okay um only thing is you pointing that you um tomates I meant to text her and ask her do you chop them up or do you have them whole so you got to chop them up a you I don't know oh want a bit of a layy thing do you want a layy thing I don't know if we want a layy thing or whether we want um whole things whole things around the turkey we don't know do we you don't know well they're getting chopped up okay anyway all right so onion elepant in the room where's me Gro oh yeah well hang on a minute I bought that for it have with our with our meal when it's ready you want it now B do okay go on then is in there on the table so um how big do you reckon the potatoes am I doing them like normal English and then and then look up to me am I doing the normal English roast potato size I don't know we know nothing I'm sure at the end of the day whatever you do it's going to like disappear it's going to taste nice I'm not going to not eat it because the potatoes are the wrong size no but we want it to be um you know we're in Spain we're cooking a traditional dinner what we do these Tom okay prbly without any fingers in there yeah no fingers okay bit smaller I reckon oh yeah bit smaller So that obviously they cook at the same time with the turkey anyway where's that did you go and get alcohol yeah but you've made me hold the camera so I can't have anything to drink it's a bit of a cunning plan well let's stop right there and get that open looking heck don't have to turn it that [Music] one special salad oh lovely that's yours so where's mine all right then all right Merry Christmas Merry Christmas to you you look nice thank you with how do you dangle earrings on they're actually my n's earrings so very nice I'm wearing them in memory of absent family and friends very good okay then Yum Yum Yum and Salada mixer salad do no that was really really nice wasn't it yeah okay lovely let's get the main bit and here we go ly look at that oh smell that guess what you're having most of the turkey and I'm having most of potatoes and vegetables yay I'm not meant to be upset with that many any vampires anywhere near us tonight they meant to garlic no vampires at all that's good no Vampires will eat our dinner either Yum Yum Yum did you eat that last potato no you had it did I I had the last book one potato oh and so from castill La Mancha in Spain we're wishing you an absolutely wonderful Fel Navidad a very very very wonderful happy Christmas to everyone whoever you may spend it with yeah we hope if you spend it on your own then we just wish you a double helping of blessings for the year ahead and so thank you so much for watching watching and we hope you have a lovely peaceful happy Christmas Merry Christmas F merry Dad Merry Christmas pet Merry Christmas dog you [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] [Music]