A VERY WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA,ESTEPONA & SAN PEDRO ON WEDNESDAY;

WEDNESDAY 25^th/ FEBRUARY 2015.

We were up bright and early this morning as the sound of the workmen clearing the rubbish from the ‘Casa De Torres’ development at the bottom of our street, it's the latest sound! After breakfast and a quick freshen up we shot out on our travels down here on the ‘Costa Del Sol’

The weather forecast for today was clear blue skies and sunshine, it was right, in fact by lunchtime it was very hot and the temperature reached 23/24degs! We have more of the same for the rest of the week and over the weekend; it’s the most glorious, beautiful day here in sunny Manilva and along the coast, the Mediterranean is shimmering and the mountains are looking spectacular, the views down to Gibraltar and across to the ‘Rif’ mountains of Africa are also very clear.

I called into the bank and then we started on our planned route, in the first charity shop I found a couple of 1 Euros shirt, a Cardigan for me and a ‘Cocktail Shaker’ for Mano, for his new Cocktail Bar in his house! At the next charity shop it was half price day so I ended up with two Hermes Silk Ties for 3 Euros, we also found a very nice Sherry Trifle Bowl & Silver Spoon which we have looking for a while!

We then headed along the coast road to Estepona and called in the Hypermarket first, we bought a Paella Pan, a couple of tea mugs and some bits and pieces, next door is ‘La Casa’ where we found the two Wooden Chopping Boards that we needed, a rug for the kitchen, night lights, napkins a apron and some more tea & coffee mugs as well as some bright Red table place setting plates! Brenda also picked up some scented oils from the ‘Hippy’ shop to burn in her night light pots. See the picture above of some of our purchases.

It was then time to go a little further along the coast road to find the ‘Cocomo’ Bar & Restaurant, It’s right next to the 5* ‘Senator Banus Spa Hotel’ as you can see in the picture above. We had a well earned cool drink sat out side on the comfortable settees, we the selected and booked a nice table for this coming Sunday as the place and the food look rather special.

Our next port of call was for our ‘Tapas’ lunch in the new Boulevard in San Pedro, we went to the same Bar and once again had some very tasty light Tapas,Brenda had the Fresh Gambas and shared the ‘House Ham Croquets’- ‘Delicious’ was the comment! I meanwhile had the ‘Tortilla de Camorones’ followed by the special of the day ‘Pisto con Huevos y Patatas’ as you can see in the pictures below. The ‘Pisto’ was the Spanish version of ‘Ratatouille, with lots of crusty bread and of course fried egg and chips!!See below;

The last stop on the way home was at the Garden Centre in Sabinillas for a couple of wall plants before heading back up the hill to a very warm and sunny Manilva. One ‘Helluva’ day out!!

This evening for our supper, later, we are having ‘Grilled Gammon Steaks’ with Fresh seared Pineapple slices and topped with a ‘Campo’ Fried Egg along with Garden Peas and twice-cooked ‘Frits’ and ‘HP’sauce! We will then find something to watch after channel hopping.

PS; One little bonus today when we called into the 'Lottery National' office in the Hypermarket and got our money back ( 20 Euros) on our 'Xmas - El Gordo' lottery ticket!!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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