Life with Donkeys

Hello everybody,

This time shortly. Well, I’ll try.

Since I moved to this place which is called Donkey Paradise I am very busy but very happy.

I live with 25 donkeys, well they live in the stables and I do have my own beautiful room but still I feel like living with them because I do spend good amount of time just being with them.

In this farm also lives 4 ( at the moment 3, cause 1 moved away) beautiful dogs which every morning and every evening we have to walk them, and it is one of my favourite jobs because I get the opportunity to see beautiful mountains around.

There are also 2 horses, 2 mules and 7 cats which makes this farm look so alive!

Unfortunately I don’t practise my Spanish because it is very international here, woman who created this farm is Dutch and there is also another volunteer Steve from UK. They are amazing people, so hard-working and really inspiring.

We work quite a lot, whole day and every day basically but the work is not that hard. Well, now is the apple picking time so it is a bit hard cause it is very warm but it is manageable, I don’t complain!

We have to feed animals, clean the stables, walk the dogs and…my favourite part to walk donkeys back to their stables!!!! And they listen to me!!!!! I feel like some cool shepherd walking all my donkeys to the stables, haha. It is amazing feeling!!!

The food is fantastic, they are all vegetarians so for me it is paradise. Everyday I fall in love with some new meal and my Beoynce’s ass is not getting smaller I’m afraid J

But in general here the atmosphere is so chilled, if I would want I could be totally lazy and do just a bit and nobody would really tell me a thing but when I see such a hard-working people who work for these beautiful animals I want to do exactly the same. I feel it that my help is very needed because this place would not survive without volunteers.

All day long I spend outside and I really do quite many things so I feel totally isolated from the world and I love it.

Now I am some sort of farmer girl, dirty and wild and that’s the way I like to be. At the moment, haha :)

See you in December,

Much love,

Ligita

Surfer in Xivares, the place where I have stayed before

Nearly blind Katrina

My favourite donkey Sammy

Beautiful and sad face owner Flora

Curious Rosie

Lovely Arvo

The place where I live at the moment

Kanela, Ginger and Pepper all eating from the same bowl

One of the 4 donkeys stable

Arvo and beautiful mountains behind him

My amazing Lady

Funny look Carino

Mara and Kari

Very friendly Chulo

The best behaviour dog in the world porbably, Joly

Collecting memories and the Donkey Paradise

Hello again, or should I keep writing Hola from now on,

So what is happening in my life. I keep asking this question myself for million of times.

This travel gives me so much air to breathe and think. I LOVE IT. It is kind of form of meditation when you have an opportunity to look inside yourself but for much longer time.

The life here is good, the weather is not changing as well, still warm and I do have a feeling that winter will never be here, haha!

Last weekend I went rock climbing, today had a bicycle trip and yesterday went to great National Geographic photography exhibition. So I keep myself fit (well at least trying!) and do some cultural stuff as well.

The annoying part in my life at the moment is the comfort. I don’t want it anymore. My life is more full when I am dirty standing on the road and hitch-hiking, meeting people and not having access to the internet. I do not deny, sometimes I love comfort and sometimes I secretely dream not to do anything but after one month spent in real comfortable conditions it is time to move on. I feel like I soaked from this place what I wanted.

So, next Friday I am leaving this kind Asturian family and going to the Donkey Paradise. Ha! And it is not my sarcasm, not at all! The place is actually called Donkey Paradise. It is an organization, still in the same region Asturias, which host many old and retired donkeys which cannot be looked after anymore. They do have 24 donkeys, all different and very very cute, 4 dogs, 5 cats and 2 horses. Animal paradise!!! I am extremely excited because I will spend there whole November and I can’t wait to get dirty, woohoo!

However, I will definitely miss this family. They taught me Spanish (I am still the beginner but with a better understanding of some tricky things), they took me as a daughter, fed me like a princess and gave so much knowledge about the life in Spain. Father Paco gave me a lot of advises with my future and actually very wise and interesting, I will keep them all in my head and maybe one day who knows I will return to them to say big big thank you.

I am so so happy that I have a courage and determination to do this trip and when I don’t know it’s ending, I feel great, I feel free. Free to do whatever I want.

In the beginning I was a bit freaking out of this unknown future but the more I live the more I realise that I don’t need to know what is going to happen and I don’t need one year plan or something.

For now Spain is a stop in my life. For how long, nobody knows. And I dare you to do the same because it feels amazing.

Keep shining everybody.

With love,

Ligita

These sweets are in every single Spanish shop. I am so tempted to buy them all the time!

The view from my room. They have small jungle :)

My favourite tree

Very cool museum where we went to the Exhibition of photography

Cool Cafe inside the museum

One of the photos of the photographers of National Geography. This picture is amazing. But it is more amazing when you know the story behind. This little boy is crying because some rude and awful taxi driver drove and killed their all sheep, the source they were living from. Fortunately, kind people donated money and these people can buy some sheep and live again. 

Nearly November!

Xivares. The place I live at

Me climbing with Paco