Stuttzcast

Witchcraft

A Bull Named Hotspur.

Matthew and Duncan

John and Rooney watch many hundreds of migrating vultures, visit Malaga, the Malaga Pompidou centre, attend The exposition of Spanish artists 1920 to 2020, discuss, cubism, surrealism, material, white hunters, black hearts, house wines and more.

Hughie's Ghost

Dipping Sheep.

A cheat and a good man.

Haymaking

School Mottos

Horses

The Farm

John and Rooney are back. They discuss more house guests, the Feria de San Pedro, look back at the history of the town, Peter Flemming's Brazilian Adventure, and Paddle Boarding.

Prologue, Chapter 1 - Accidental Patricide  Chapter 2 - Lost Empires

John and Rooney walk out on a peaceful early Sunday morning, watch an impressive sunrise, discuss their neighbour's new classic Triumph Spitfire, wedding anniversary celebrations, a mind-blowing new Thai restaurant, sight a booted eagle, and get surrounded by a wind storm.

After a morning walk with Rooney that was hijacked by the man with the drill (he's always there, isn't he?), and the barking dog, John heads out to the mountains to be greeted by two golden eagles and a panorama to soothe the soul.

John walks with Rooney early, to observe how a Russian man attempts to train his Doberman pincher. Then switched to a pm hike over the high mountains of Benahavis to survey the damage caused by the 6 day wildfires.

John and Rooney take a dawn walk and observe the ravages of the mountain fire that has been burning for 5 days, see a pod of dolphins, witness a lip splitting pavement fall, and savor the peaceful silence of a Sunday dawn.

John and Rooney encounter a few neighbours while on their morning walk, observe the mountain fire and review an attempted coup d'etat.

John and Rooney reunite, watch Griffons searching for thermals, see a huge mountain fire, visit the Cotswolds, review John's Camino de Santiago, and back to college.

John heads off to Pamplona to catch the bus to St Jean du Pied du Port, in France, to commence the Camino. Told from the tranquility of the English Cotswolds

John practised again for the Camino de Santiago with a hike to the summit of Montemayor, encounters a very inked trail biker, marvels at the huge vista, encounters an eagle family, a swoop of swallows (house martins), swallowtail butterflies, climbs 800m to the ruins of the 8th century Castillo de Montemayor, and hikes around its senderos (footpaths).

John has to abandon Rooney to get some tougher practice in ahead of the Camino de Santiago walk. He comes across a ruined mountain silk and linen works, where 50 Portuguese corsairs plundered in the 1540s, and gets stalked by a honey buzzard.

John and Rooney discuss the last of their summer guests, tripping the light fantastic on Ella's last night, a suicide that John, Maya and Ella sadly witnessed, contemplate the Camino de Santiago and more.

John and Rooney review a mountain hike to the lake of Ojen, a yachting break in Majorca, and horse riding amid the elegant Griffon vultures of Casares.

John and Rooney review the war, famine, pestilence and death currently reported in the news and decide.....to go to Majorca!