A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 29^th/APRIL 2014.

This morning it was the sun that got us up, the weather at the moment and for the rest of the week and into next is hot sunshine and no breeze, clear blue skies and getting hotter, today its 29/31 degs! It’s also warmer during the night so we are already changing to our summer covers on the bed.

After breakfast we decided to go across to Estepona to the car hypermarket for Oil & Coolant as it’s a lot cheaper, we then dropped down through the town and called in ‘Carrefore’ to have a look around, first to check out the camera’s as I’ am planning to get a new Nikon later in the year, not much in stock so it means that we will go across to the larger ‘Las Palomas’ shopping mall and hyper shops behind Algeciras some time next week; I was also looking for a light cotton bathrobe for the summer at the same time ,no luck also! We did call into the ‘Josh-Stick/Oils’ shop for some scented oil for the burner on our coffee table – success!

Last night I had an E-Mail from Bedwyr over in North Wales with an up-date on the exhibition/project at the ‘Oriel Mostyn Art Gallery’in Llandudno; it has been very well received, including a review in the ‘Guardian’ guide last Saturday, everybody has said that it has brought back very many happy memories of the Hotel 70* He is sending us a signed print from the model that the animators made; to watch the film you can go to – bedyrwilliams.wista.com/projects/olookharg3 – bear in mind that he used some artistic license with the interior and in his own words “ Be warned the film is a little strange” !!

So this evening for supper we are having ‘Pan-fried Calves Liver’ with English Pork Sausages, Smoked Bacon, sautéed Mushrooms and grilled Tomato, fried Onion rings and the rest of last night’ ‘Spaghetti Milanaise’ – yesterday our next door neighbor Anna passed in through the back kitchen window some lovely fresh large Broad Beans, so I’ am making them into a local ‘Dish’ after cooking and shelling them I will toss them with a little Garlic and Smoked Bacon sippits!

It will then be time to watch the second leg semi-final of the ‘UEFA Champions League’ between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid on TVE 1 – last nights film was one that we had not seen before, for a change “ The Cold Light of Day” from 2012 – it’s a CIA/Mossad spy story filmed in Spain and mostly in the center of Madrid starring Henry Cavill,Bruce Willis( Briefly!) Sigourney Weaver as the baddie and Veronica Echegui as the love interest – watch it to the end to catch the night-time car chase through the streets in the center of Madrid!

Real Madrid won 0-4 - 0-5 on aggregate to reach the final - totally out-playing the Germans!!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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