CASA OLIMPIA.

Tuesday/Wednesday 4th/5th August 2009.

Tuesday 4th.

It was grey, overcast and foggy to start, even the ships on the Strait were using their fog horns! Later it cleared up a little and by the late afternoon it was back to normal. The workmen after doing some work in the garden then moved in to the master bedroom and started to knock down some small walls and rip the floor up with a Jack Hammer ! We kept out of the way on the lower balcony as we had a snack lunch; in the early afternoon I prepared some Boulangere potatoes to have with our Lamb chops for our dinner with Brenda’s vegetables. Over the last two weeks as I have been on the road back and forwards to Estepona and Manilva I have seen that the polo ground at Sotogrande is looking very busy; it is hosting the Santa Maria Polo Club Tournament, the ground which is the finest in Europe, will have twenty teams comprising of a hundred players and more than a thousand horses taking part in the games over the month of August,Taittinger champagne are the main sponsors and as usual there are a smattering of Royals about! Later on in the evening we had a long chat with Chris over in London and we have agreed to come back on the 24th August to look after Joan,the dogs and cats and the villa so as we make the plans to take her over to her apartment in Docklands at the start of September before her passport expires.Watch this space,it could get exciting!

Wednesday 5th.

Today was another running around day as I had to go across to Estepona to the bank and them meet Mano and Juan in Manilva to hand over some further payments for the on going work; I then called at the surgery to pick up my my prescriptions and found that I could not get into the main street of the village due to roadwork’s so I had to go down to a chemists in Sabinillas only to find that I needed to go back to the surgery as there was some outstanding paper work in the file; it turned out that I will have to go for eye and feet tests due to the Diabetes! So I have made the appointments for this week at the health centre in Estepona.Tonight we are having flattened Breast of Chicken in a light citrus sauce with new potatoes on the balcony overlooking the pool! PS;
As we were sat on the balcony the phone went and it was Carolyn in Guadalmina asking us if we could look after their villa in the middle of August;it falls in the time when we are home from Casa Olimpia so we are going to go there for five days,The builders have stopped work for the month of August and they have had industrial cleaners in for two days so the villa is looking more like an home! Watch out for the first pictures of the refubishment!