SATURDAY 5TH/
AUGUST 2015. “DIA DE ASUNCION
This
weekend is one of the major ‘Bank Holiday’ weekends here in Spain as they
celebrate today the ‘Assumption of Mary’ – a major ‘Saints’ day in the
religious calendar; it’s the height of the holiday season so the whole weekend
goes mad all over Spain!
Late
yesterday afternoon there were two major fires just down the coast before &
behind Sotogrande, the first was in the slopes & hills to the west of
Sotogrande and then another one broke out on the outskirts of Torreguadiaro, on
the edge of Manilva, when a car in the car park of a large hotel burst into
flames after an electrical fault, exploded and set more cars on fire before
which then because of the stiff breeze set the surrounding country side on
fire!!
On Facebook
there were lots of pictures & reports posted, it made the National news and
was declared a major incident, all the local Fire Stations were called out
including ours here in the village; as you can see in the pictures below the
Helicopters & Emergency Water Planes were called into action – the pictures
were taken by Gary of the ‘Resident’ newspaper.See below;
Last night
we had a ‘Helluva’ night on the town (village) We went along to ‘Bar Castillo’-
to start, as at lunchtime when we called in for a drink we saw some very nice
looking ‘Chuletas de Cordero’ – Baby Lamb Cutlets, so I ordered 4 as a Tapas –
we took along some ‘Mint Sauce’ and introduced Juan to it as a ‘Salsa’! They
also had some strips of ‘Belly Pork’ so we tried two small ones – all cooked ‘a
la plancha’ – the Pork was served with Lemon wedges – Delicious!!
Juan has
got some more help in along with his family, as he’s so busy, two local
‘Senoritas’ are now running around the place giving it even more atmosphere
& excitement!!
We then
came back along to ‘ Bar Rojas’ for our ‘fish supper’ – but there was a problem
as Keino could not get his new TV to work – there was an important match on –
so the place was dead and had no atmosphere – we cancelled our supper and shot
back along to Bar Castillo, who had the match on and the place was ‘bouncing’-
we went inside for a change and joined all the locals to watch the game; it was
the first leg of the ‘Spanish Super Cup’ as Athletic Bibao welcomed Barcelona
to the ‘Cathedral of Sound’ – sadly Barcelona lost 4-0 with Aduriz scoring a
hat trick!
While we
were watching the game we had a ‘ration’ plate of more of the ‘Lamb & Pork’
with some excellent ‘frits’ on the side – we staggered back to the house along
Calle Mar feeling no pain!
The second
leg is on Monday back in Barcelona Barcelona Bilbao
Meanwhile
over in the ‘Premier League’ in the UK Everton travel all the way down to
Southampton today, Manchester City welcome Chelsea tomorrow in the ‘Match of
the Day’ and then on Monday Liverpool welcome newly promoted Bournmouth to
Anfield!
After a
little well deserved lie in this morning ‘Scruffy’ was dropped off for the day,
we then had a late breakfast of Fresh Orange juice followed by ‘Campo Fried
Eggs’ with crispy ‘Smoked Back Bacon’
with lots of toast and a mug of steaming tea!
We are
taking things easy over the weekend and will go out for our now regular
‘Paella’ at lunchtime tomorrow; this evening we are having ‘Entrecote Minute
Steak’ with all the trimmings for supper before finding a good film to watch
after the news, sport and weather round ups.
Thoughts
for the Day; See above.
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