Thursday 25th March 2010.
It is still overcast but at least it’s warm, 20degs. And no wind as we reach our last week here at Casa Olimpia, we hope! We have been here for just over a year, on and off, and for the last ten months 24/7. It seems like only yesterday when we came over in an emergency in June,Jack and Lyn had to come with us as they were staying at the house in Manilva on their honeymoon – Happy Days !
The Sky system is still acting up so we have not been able to catch up with the programmes that we have been following, the BBC IPlayer does not yet work over here. At the moment, all this week, it’s the Track Cycling World Championships 2010 taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is my sport as I was brought up on bicycle’s and racing from a very early age, my dad was a long distance road racer with the Mersey Roads Club and we went to the local concrete,in those days, race track in Bootle opposite Walton Jail as well as Fallowfield in Manchester to see all the greats of the time race! Anyway to get back to the present and Britain is now the leading medal winners at the Olympics in 2008 and at past World Championships but if Britain’s track cyclists needed any reminding that it is not just turning up at London 2012 to collect a clutch of medals, they got it in spades in Copenhagen on the first day. We could only manage silver and bronze medals with even the great Sir Chris Hoy having mechanical problems when his pedal snapped off ! I am typing this in Chris’s office in the villa and have just been reminded that in his youth Chris was a world champion racer, his Rainbow jersey is hanging on the wall above my head and his light weight bicycle’s are in the garage !
NB; This evening Sir Chris Hoy has just powered to victory in the Keiren event despite crashing in the first heat,it is his 10th World title gold medal; sadly in the Women's Team Pursuit the Australian ladies beat the British girls in the final and scored another Gold for the Aussies !
This afternoon we are going down to the clinic in Tarifa to get Brenda’s dressing checked and changed and later in the day the vet is coming to give Boo the once over; we will miss the two dogs tremendously after we leave as we have become very attached to them. Tonight we are having Pork Cutlets with Lyonnaise potatoes for supper with Brenda’s vegetables that she is getting ready in the kitchen at the moment.
Thought for the Day;
You may be the only person in the world, but you may be the world to one person.
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