Creative Nomads In Spain

Earlier this year we visited my skipper dad and did “house sitting” on another boat in south of Spain. Great way to travel on a low budget! The photos are from Benalmádena, Torremolinos and Mijas, all beautiful and friendly places to find inspiration for creative projects, such as making a promo video for RJ Art. Hope you enjoy them!

Index

Boat life
Benalmadena and Torremolinos
Mijas
Creative projects

Boat life

Home, sweet home for a few weeks!

The living room, dining room and office space.

I yam what I yam, and that’s all I am! And I love spinach! Who am I?

View towards Fuengirola.

Doing laundry in public.

Watching laundry dry.

Classy guy on a boat.

Even the rain felt good in Spain…

Skipper Dad.

“There is no such thing as waste”

Our home number two while in Benalmádena. Dad’s friend Karim kindly let us live on his boat for free while he was home in UK (dad has previously done some work on the boat).

Fitting name for a boat like this: “Happy Days”.

Some vacuum cleaning isn’t the worst to do for work exchange! Far better than the place we tried first, an organic fruit farm/retreat to be, that so far didn’t have a toilet…

A small and quite functional kitchen to make lots of yummy veggie food.

As in France, it’s not so easy to find vegan options when eating out while in Spain, so we had most of our meals “at home” (also nice for our budget). Good thing there are plenty of quality fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds to be found.

Age of Plastic. After this we’ve switched to using thin fabric bags for shopping groceries.

One of the chefs in action!

Perfectly sized bathroom.

King sized bed! And no sofa, it was buried underneath. Good priority.

The office desk.

Dining room / office / drawing space.

Daily breakfast routine: Fruit salad with soy yoghurt, seeds and nuts.

“Our” street.

Little did the passing tourists with a dream of “one day” affording to live on a boat know that we were merely a couple of penniless and happy artists giggling at how wonderful life can be 😀

Fishes! Skippers love them, they help to keep the boats clean.

Benalmádena puerto marina at evening time.

Another boat chef. Just enough space to stand on dad’s boat. For me that is, Jean got good training in bowing 😛

Skipper dad on a friend’s boat.

Boat food.

Benalmadena & Torremolinos

Parrot has flown.

Mijas

Welcome to Mijas, south of Spain!

Scenic views all around.

Ghost emblem.

Horses and their humans.

Pfff, grown ups…

Shadow sign.

Beautiful Mijas!

Mutual paparazzi shoot.

No stairs needed, you just jump up. Or?

Paparazzi shot of a lady’s legs and knitting 😉

Loved the blue pots all around.

Glimpse of a ride.

Multicoloured

Spanish electricity.

The Godfather

Eager photographer…

…and his motive…and his motive: Natural dryer.

Take the blue pill.

The sneaky photographer and his unknowing prey.

Not yet! Just sleeping…

DIY tree branch props.

Mirror us!

Lost in dreams of youth.

Shop signs.

Spanish tuk tuk.

Mountain chapel.

We found vegan tapas! :D Another great tip for eating out for vegans/vegetarians in Spain: Indian food!

We found vegan tapas! 😀 Another great tip for eating out for vegans/vegetarians in Spain: Indian food!

Amor, Amor ! Tapas and songs.

Adorable streets.

Not the worst stuff created by humans.

Saint Jean I

Saint Jean II

Macro flower.

Estudio.

Secret viewpoint.

Minimalistic composition.

Floating pots.

Angulo Ceramic & Art, Mijas.

Creative projects

The photographers hunting for motives.

Coloured camouflage.

We got two full bags of free lemons! Why? Because we asked a very kind and generous Spanish lady if we could get a couple of lemons from her beautiful lemon tree. She even insisted on picking them for us!

This inspired Jean and me to draw her something as a thank you.

Here’s Jeans’ drawing for the generous “Lemon Lady”, who happened to have her birthday the same day we dropped by and asked for lemons. She’s the kind of person that restores your faith in humanity <3