A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 3Oth/ MAY 2015.

We were all up before the crack of dawn this morning ‘Brenda Charlie Scruffy & Reina’ as we had to go for the first walk of the day because I was taking Lillemor over to the bus station in Marbella to catch her flight home from Malaga Airport to Sweden; just as we were walking back the sun came up over the mountains behind Marbella in a spectacular burst of color. See the picture below of Lillemor outside the bus station.

All three dogs slept very well and were no problem, they exchanged beds during the night and all ended up on the Marble floor, at some time, as we as had the hottest night so far this year, the fan was on all night! The sun is out, the sky is Blue and there is just a little very pleasant breeze to make it a near perfect day here in sunny Manilva. The forecast is looking good for the weekend and next week is starting to also look fine with it getting warmer as the week goes on.

The drive over along the coast road to Marbella was spectacular, the ‘Mediterranean’ was sparkling and the mountains behind Estepona & Marbella had a particular blue/green clear and crisp look;

When I retuned Brenda made my favorite breakfast of ‘Campo Poached Eggs on Toast’ with a mug of steaming tea, See below!

Yesterday evening we went up in the roof terrace for our ‘Happy Hour’ cocktails, the workmen (8) on the site had a busy afternoon as the large concrete floor beams arrived and were dropped off in Calle Mar, as the lorry could not get down our street, so they had to carry them down to the site with four men straining to carry them, at the same time the large brick honeycomb floor inserts were also carried down, the result as you can see has got the ground floor well on the way. See the pictures above.

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Entrecote Steak’ cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘Med-Rare’ with on the side sautéed Baby Mushrooms & Shallots, finely sliced Green Beans and some more twice-cooked ‘Frits’ and of course no forgetting the ‘Béarnaise’ sauce.

In ‘Doggy World Heaven’ this morning ‘Scruffy’ was picked up so we have ‘Reina’ with us until Monday evening and ‘Charlie’ is with us for an extra day as Jan phoned from Liverpool yesterday to check that it was OK as they were coming back on later flight on Sunday instead of today

Over in Italy this weekend it’s the ‘Italian Motor GP’ from Mugello and the final two stages of the ‘Giro d’Italia’finishing in Milan on Sunday. Over here this evening it’s the final of the ‘Cope Del Rey’ taking place in Madrid at Atl.Madrid’s ground as Real Madrid’s ground is being refurbished; Barcelona are going for the treble as they take on Athetico Bilbao and then next Saturday in the ‘Champions League Final’ against Juventue in Germany. Meanwhile at Wembley it’s the ‘FA Cup Final’ between Arsenal & Aston Villa.

This week it’s also the ‘Isle of Man TT’ Motorcycle racing over the famous 37 mile circuit on the narrow roads around the island, over the mountains and through the villages on the fastest and most dangerous motor racing circuit in the World. It takes a very special rider with courage to take on the demanding ‘Time Trail’ race - against the clock! See below;

After supper we will catch up with the sports news before settling down to watch a film, last night we watched “State of Play” from 2009 – a political thriller with Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Jeff Daniels, Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright Penn & Helen Mirren. Watch it to the end as there is a twist!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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