A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 7^th/ MAY 2015.

I was up early this morning as ‘Reina’ was due back with us for the day; she’s back next week, as normal, on Tuesday & Thursday; the sun was out already and the sky is blue, there is a slight breeze which makes it very comfortable here in sunny Manilva.

Yesterday we had another invitation to this time the new ‘IU’parties ‘Bash’ this coming Sunday in the early evening in the ‘Plaza Pozo Del Rey’ We have also been asked to go to the ‘PPs’ party office on Saturday down in Sabinillas for their ‘Do’- at the same time in the square it’s the ‘ASM’ parties ‘Get together’ !! They are all of course chasing our two votes on the 24th May!!

Meanwhile up in a rather damp Skelton ‘Up North’ I’ve just heard ‘rumors’ that the local ‘Polling Station’ has been burnt down by right-wing activists so the ‘Queen & her Consort’ will not be able to vote in today’s General Election !!

I was reading all the newspapers on-line yesterday, as usual, including the ‘Daily Mail’ (sorry Josie)!  When I got to the North Wales edition of the Daily Post the front page new was that Llandudno Pier had been sold for £4.5 million to a local leisure entrepreneur from Rhyl Adam Williams – See the picture below;

I suddenly realized that I knew the name, It turns out that he is the son of the late Billy Williams who we used to work for back in 1972/5 as managers of the ‘Kinmel Manor Hotel’ in Abergele that he owned!

This then brought back lots of memories of our time there, Billy Williams was a fairground showman and owned the ‘Big Wheel’ and a club called the “Downtown” in Rhyl next to the fairground; on the night that Adam was born I called across to Billy’s house next to the hotel and ended up toasting the new born babies health with him until staggering back to the hotel the next morning!

During our time at the hotel we met our very dear friend Tim and his first wife Sandra, Douglas Leech and his then girlfriend Sue and his best mate Alan Dunton and his first wife Yola as well as many more North Wales friends including Prys Jones the local Estate Agent from Abergele that we later bought our house from in Rhyd-y-Foel!  Happy times and fond memories of the good old days over 40 years ago.

Speaking of Douglas we have now made contact and it turns out that he is arriving at Malaga Airport this Sunday for a holiday with his wife Lynn and two friends Pedro & Ann from Llandudno who we also know as Ann’s family owned the historic 'Clare's' departmental store in the Mostyn street!

They are staying at a villa up in the lake district above Malaga in the tiny white village of Iznajar so we are planning, if possible, to meet up with them; at the same time Jenny Faux, from Llandullas, who used to work for us for many years at the ‘Hotel Seventy Degrees’ is coming with some of her family to their apartment in Duquesa for a holiday so no doubt we will catch up with her also!

That’s enough nostalgia for now; so this evening for our supper we are having pan-fried ‘Escallops of Chicken Breast’ cooked in foaming Lemon Butter with a dash of Balsamic Vineagre & on the side finely sliced Green Beans and thick-cut slices of Baked Potato dry-sautéed.

At lunchtime we went for a walk with 'Chispa' and ended up at Bar Rojas for a cool drink,we then met a English couple out on their bikes,they have a house in Casares Costa on the way out from Sabinillas, so we had a nice chat with them 'Peter & Hannah - nice to meet you and look forward to seeing you again up in sunny Manilva at the 'Vendimia' at the start of September if not before! 

Last night we watched, later. the high lights of the Barcelona v Bayern Munich game on ‘TDP’as Barcelona beat the German champions 3-0 with Messi scoring two goals! Next week is the second leg back in Germany.

PS;This morning we were looking at the Australian side of the family on Facebook' and clicked to make contact with on of Lyn's daughter's son - the reply came back instantly - it just reminds you of the power of the WWW!

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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