Love it Paul, really well filmed and it flowed as good as the wine !
This is what we get up to down here in Spain at the moment as Christmas is actually celebrated on the epiphany 5th & 6th of January.
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!
https://youtu.be/NwkkEKX1w6U

The warmer weather in the UK has woken one of our Bank Voles in the garden, this is 40 seconds of it grabbing as much food as possible to put in it's larder ! My wife is never unhappy even in bad weather !!
https://youtu.be/ZVKdwAJe0Bk

Recently I went on a village trip to Auckland Zoo. I hadn't been there for eight years and much had changed.  After two hours walking around I've ended up with a 5 minute video.  I was tired for many days afterwards.  Oh to be young and energetic.

Animal Antics   https://vimeo.com/901680441   or  https://youtu.be/DOnBymg859A

But Albert you're only a youngster in your seventies.

Our current hot humid weather doesn't help.  But 27 degrees C is nothing to what my children get in NSW.

No matter it was only 5 mins Eric it was still well filmed (as usual) and entertaining.
We were in Spain until the 14th Dec and flew back to the UK for a family Christmas and then back down on the 31st ready for the new years day charity sea swim that I filmed. Sue took part as normal and used my GoPro from the swimmers side that I edited in. Unfortunately the battery is on it's last legs so I turned the screen off so it would last the 15mins or so of the duration so she couldn't see what she was filming, but did know that it has quite a wide angle.
The whole thing was a great success and raised 7K for a local animal sanctuary. Where the swim takes place at this time and hour of the year the sun is always directly over the sea behind the swimmers so filming from the beach is never going to be the best. The start of the video is basically for the benefit of the participants and the action doesn't start until 7min, and will probably be boring for you boys !
We are here until mid Feb and enjoying mid 20c temperatures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58LRFM39tU
PS just noticed that the link isn't starting at the beginning !

Gordon - a couple of questions.  Were the participants mainly locals or Brits like you running away from an English winter?  Everything I saw or heard seemed to be in English not Spanish!

And the temperature?  It looked like a nice summers day but hang on it's winter at present in the Northern Hemisphere.  December 31 is only ten days past your shortest day.

The main participants are English but also other Europeans, however a good majority are actual full time retired residents because of the life style and weather and the majority of all the people tend to speak in English regardless of their nationality !
You may have noticed that right at the beginning a lot of people were wearing jackets and warm clothing as it was a "chilly" 16c before the sun came out of the clouds and the temp reached 25c and the sea was 16c.
We have been here on and off for over 50 years in all months and in the winter the temp drops by 10c directly the sun disappears behind the hills.
We tend to spend 6 months in Spain 5 to 6 weeks at a time but very rarely go in July/Aug because it is too crowded and can reach 50c !.    After "Brexit" UK passport holders are limited to the 90/180 rule but  we are lucky in that Sue has an Irish (EU) passport that gives her and me a lot more freedom.

We often go for walks up in the hills and often find things like this. I have no idea who would have lived there, or how long ago ? I suppose it could have been a smallholding as there are a lot of goat/sheep skulls laying around. It had electricity and running water and obviously cost a fair bit to build as it had those main gates to the entrance. Could have even been a villain from the 60s/70s as it's well out of the way https://youtu.be/DvcJtVjWmqA

You could say that !! on the radio just now we are about to have water restrictions put in place as we have had the least rainfall for 10 years and have more buildings, as I type this Sue has just said that we have no water ! However this often happens as the infrastructure is so antiquated it leaks everywhere along the main roads. We keep a bucket of water beside the toilet at all times and often have to refill it from the swimming pool.

There is a large concrete tank up near the perimeter of the land that had a locked lid on it, and I assumed that was the source of the water. I couldn't see any wells anywhere but they could have been blocked off and overgrown, however the Spanish are not know for being "ultra safe" and would just have left it to it's own devices !
I would think that where it is situated with access from roads they could easily have had water delivered as even now you can see water tankers around the area that fill up water tanks and swimming pools.
I would think that the buildings were put up in the last 50 years as the nearest approach road and nearest urbanization to the track was only built in the early 70s and were of a more modern Spanish design.
As for sewage waste that's anyone's guess ? but as I said it is very overgrown and a large amount of area that we didn't look over.

Still in Spain enjoying the weather, I even captured myself at the beginning of this video. This is people of a certain age keeping fit and some are 80+ years old, so I am a mere stripling at 77 !
https://youtu.be/scqTXIe38kg

Thanks Gordon.  I must be the oldest here rapidly approaching 82.  I suspect that if I was in your video I'd be at one of the tables sipping pineapple juice.