SUNNY AND A STILL VERY HOT MANILVA & SOTOGRANDE ON THURSDAY

THURSDAY 26^th/ SEPTEMBER 2013.

Are we lucky or what? It’s another sunny and very hot day in Manilva; we walked down to the lower Manilva roundabout with our Union Jack and Welsh Dragon flags to welcome Kelvin and Gaye to sunny Manilva, we showed them around the village and then took them to our house to give them a view of the guest facilities! We hope to see them sometime next year as they are now on the official guest list!!

We then went along the coast to Sotogrande Marina as you can see in the picture below and had a cool drink in the’Ke’Bar and on the way back called into ‘Castillo de la Duquesa and the Marina before coming back up to the village – so nice to see you both and love to you Kelvin and Gaye till we see you the next time xx

Tomorrow the forecast is for the weather to change with possible rain and on Saturday our first rain storm in over five months! Then the sun is due back on Sunday hopefully as there is a Vintage/Classic Car Rally coming through the village as lunchtime.

SPORTS NEW UPDATE;

The highlight of the week was over in San Francisco at the ‘Americas Cup’as the ‘USA Team Oracle’ made one of the greatest sporting comebacks to win the cup; they came back from being 8-1 down to win the races 9-8 and send the New Zealand team packing ! Sir Ben Ainslie was brought in as the tactician and the boat was skippered by an Australian as well as an Aussie strategist!

Meanwhile over in Florence, Tuscany at the ‘World Road Race Championship’ in the Time-Trial Sir Bradley Wiggins was second again to the German rider Tony Martin who has won the Gold Medal for the last three years! In Sunday it’s the ‘Men’s Elite Road Race’ when Chris Froome is going for the win.

Football this week has seen both Barcelona and Real Madrid win in ‘La Liga’and over in England last night in a cup match Manchester Utd won at home to Liverpool 1-0 !

On Tuesday evening I caught the latest episode of ‘New Tricks’ as Tamzin Outhwaite took over the role of the boss of department in a very good episode. Last night we found a film called ‘Man on a Ledge’ from 2012 starring Sam Worthinton,Jamie Bell ( Billy Elliot ) Elizabeth Banks and Ed Harris – Watch it to find out what he is doing out on the ledge of a New York skyscraper!!

Tonight for supper we having Baked Pork Chops with Breton Potatoes and Green Beans before settling down to our normal life in sunny Manilva after all the excitement of the start of the week!

Finally a big 'Thank You' for all my good old fashioned birthday cards including one from Tim & Thea over in Old Colwyn with Welsh Car Decals and a proper photograph of Jo in her 'Graduation Robes' which are getting framed tomorrow! Lots of Facebook messages from family and friends old and new as well as e-mails and last but not least two calls,one on 'Viber' from Big Bri over in Pori,Finland and a Skype video call on the morning of my birthday from Jack and Lyn over in Melbourne Australia !! Thanks and Love xx

Thought for the Day ; See above.

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