A VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 17^th/ JUNE 2017.

We had a nice lie in this morning after a hot & sultry night, it’s getting hotter by the night, reaching 22 degs+  Brenda had a quick shower, I’m having one later, this morning for our breakfast I had ‘ Campo’ Fried Eggs & crispy Smoked Bacon and Brenda had ‘ Campo’ Scrambled Eggs with her Bacon, buttered toast & tea on the side.

Brenda is preparing the ingredients for my famous ‘ Ensaladilla Rusa – Russian Salad ‘ that I will make later, my recipe is classic, which gives the salad ‘ body’ -  Diced, Boiled Potatoes, Diced cooked Carrot & Garden Peas,  Crushed Hard Boiled Eggs, Diced Pimento & chopped Tuna, all mixed with Mayonnaise & seasoned to taste, served with crispy small savoury biscuits.


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This morning the sun was, as usual, out early and the sky is bright blue, there is no breeze so we are in for another very hot day, by lunchtime it will reach 29/30 degs+ - inland over the weekend the forecast, which is on ‘ Red Alert’ is going up to 43/44 degs+ in parts - all over Spain this weekend there are similar temperatures around the country. Thankfully along the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ the off-shore sea breeze keeps things a little lower, next week we are in for another very hot & sunny week, watch this space.


PS; In Sevilla at lunchtime it's showing 49 degs in the shade!

At lunchtime we went along to 'Bar Castillo' for a cool drink sat on the shady side of the street and bumped into Mano, Anna & Carlos who were having drinks & Tapas, we had a good catch up with all their news and gossip.

On the sports front this weekend; The ‘ British and Irish Lions have just beaten the ‘ Maori All Blacks’ 10-32 in Rotorua, in the rain, next it’s the New Zealand All Blacks’ in the first Test Match, Jonny Sexton was superb, meanwhile Scotland beat Australia( sorry folks!) 19-24 in Sydney and Ireland thrashed Japan 22-50. This evening we will be watching the second test match as England play Argentina in Santa Fe, it will be a ‘ Helluva’ game after last week’s classic, watch this space.

For our supper tonight we are having ‘ Grilled Fillet Steaks ‘ cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘ Med-Rare’ and then left to rest, garnished with pan-seared Shallots, Baby Button Mushrooms & Asparagus Spears with whole Green Beans and of course twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ –‘ Bearnaise’ sauce & Dijon Mustard on the side.

Tomorrow evening we are having a Roast Chicken from the ‘ Rotisserie’ in Calle Mar with a Mixed Salad, Tomato Salad & Beetroot Salad along with the ‘ Russian’ Salad.

Last night after supper we channel hopped between BBC TV 1/2 After the Quiz shows we caught the 50^th Anniversary of the Gardeners’ World, Have I Got News for You and after the news the Graham Norton Show.



See below some pictures of Llandudno taken last night including the terrible stone beach installed by the Council! 

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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