Baza, Andalucia - Housesit
Our trip to Baza changed shape a bit as originally we were planning to go on the motorbikes but due to ever changing circumstances (and a financial calculation that proved it would be cheaper anyway!!!) we ended up flying to Malaga, hiring a car and ultimately making the whole housesit into the opportunity for a bigger ‘holiday’. Why not??
A day out and overnighter in Malaga - awesome place, some great sites to see
Next day we set off with great enthusiasm to Cordoba, somewhere we had been looking to visiting for some time and it didn’t disappoint.
On the final leg into Baza we noticed many ‘cave houses’. This was significant as when we arrived at our housesit, the homeowners had lived in one of the caves for 7 years and it looked amazing (it was even published in a book about living in caves!). Indeed Paul was so knowledgable on the subject that he is now real estate agent in Baza and amongst other houses, they sell ‘caves’. It was fascinating talking to them about this and we got a few tips for our stay and where to visit a cave hotel and restaurant, Al Jatib - as per the below photos.
The house we were sitting was lovely, had several floors, a roof terrace and was centrally located in the historic Moorish centre. As our luck would continue to have it, it turned out it was the ‘fiesta of the crosses’ long weekend in Baza so lots of decorations and pop up bars around the town. We had two cats, a crazy kitten, fish and two dogs to spend time with on this sit. The indoors cats were great and just lazed around the house, so really we just had a young active black Labrador, Liquorice who loved long walks and a much slower, older dog, Picoyo who wasn’t that interested really in walking at all!
It was another fabulous sit…can’t wait to go back one day and stay at the cave hotel…as well as catch up again with the home owners, Francesca and Paul, who we became good friends with, despite us, ‘temporarily’ losing, one of the (indoor, but wannabe, outdoor!!) cats.