A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON EASTER SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 15^{th /}  APRIL 2017.

We had a long lie in this morning, in fact we overslept, the village was very quiet and the church bells are not due to ring until lunchtime, Brenda produced her famous ‘ Campo’ Poached Eggs on Toast ‘ with mugs of hot steaming tea, we then sorted our weekend out.

No procession today, so we are taking things easy, last night we went up to ‘Bar Rojas’ and followed the two processions with the ladies of the village, in the band there are Fathers, Mothers, Sons & Daughters and neighbours, carrying the ‘Tronos’ are Fathers & Sons & neighbours from our street, the ladies in Black are friends, neighbours and family all from the village including the Mayors’ wife, see all the picture above, tomorrow lunchtime we are setting up shop at ‘Bar Castillo’ as the two final processions meet in front of the bar where they lift the ‘ Tronos- Tableu ‘ shoulder high and let off the Doves into the blue sky, watch this space.

We have another beautiful day here in sunny Manilva, the sun broke through early and the sky is blue, there is a slight breeze but it’s very pleasant and by lunchtime it will be warm, 28 degs, sadly tomorrow is looking fine but colder, down to 24 degs, at the moment, next week is settled, dry and cloudy and a little cooler, watch this space.

See below a ' Full Moon ' night over the Bay of Llandudno last night!

For our supper this evening we are having one of my classic old dishes ‘ Steak Diane ‘ using ‘ French’ trimmed, flattened ‘Entrecote’ Steaks, seasoned and smeared in Dijon Mustard, pan-seared and then left to rest, I make the sauce with sliced Onions, Shallots & Mushrooms, Dijon Mustard, Red Wine & Beef stock, then flamed in Brandy before adding  the steaks back into the pan with the cream and chopped Parsley, whole Green Beans & twice-cooked ‘ Frits ‘ on the side; we have ordered the ‘ Roast Chicken’ from the local ‘ Rotisserie ‘ in Calle Mar for tomorrow night’s supper and then on ‘Easter Monday’ we are having the traditional  ‘Roast Lamb – Shoulder of New Zealand, South Island’ with of course ‘ Boulangere ‘ Potatoes and a large selection of Fresh Vegetables from Brenda!

We have just tried to contact Jack & Lyn over in Melbourne on the ‘ Skype video, with no luck, we rang them and are going to try later this evening before we go to bed, it’s  then early morning over in Australia! This year the ‘ Easter ‘ cards from the three sisters arrived very quickly, as did our ours to them, now that’s unusual for our local postal system!

On the sports front this weekend; the Horse Racing is from Haydock Park & Musselburgh, the Grand Prix is in Bahrain, the Track Cycling ‘World Championships’ are from Hong Kong, the Snooker World Championship starts at the Crucible in Sheffield, over in the ‘Premiere League’ Everton welcome Burnley, Manchester City travel down to Southampton, on Sunday Liverpool go down the M6 to West Brom, in the ‘ La Liga’ over here Barcelona welcome Real Sociedad and Real Madrid travel up to Sorting Gijon.

This evening we will channel hop and try and catch a film later.

Thoughts for the Day ; See above.

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