FRIDAY 21st/ JULY 2017.
I was up early this morning to welcome back
little princess ‘ Reina’ for the day, she shot onto her duvet and I shot off
down on the bus to Sabinillas on my travels, for the weekly shopping, I popped
into the ‘ English Bookshop’ for the local English newspapers before going
along to an already busy ‘ Mercadona’ for our major two-week stock up, on the
check-out was our neighbours daughter, Marta, she plays in the Brass Band, has
been a ‘Feria’ queen and is the niece of the Mario, the Mayor, we have seen her
grown up, go through school & college, do some modelling work, with various
small jobs for the Council etc. She organised the Taxi for me.
The Taxi stopped at ‘ Super-Sol’ where I
picked up the English essentials, we then came back up to the village through
the back streets to the house as ‘ Calle Mar ‘ is closed, the Council workmen
are erecting the poles along the street that support the green sun cover,
lighting etc, it looks like they have responded to my suggestion, they are also
repairing the flagstones along the street, watch this space.
The sky was clear and the sun was out early
this morning, there is a stiff breeze keeping it very pleasant, by lunchtime it’s
due to reach 35 degs, overnight 24 degs, over the weekend it’s staying in the
low 30s and next week is going to be even hotter, watch this space.
Brenda has just walked down to the local
market down by the sports complex and come back with the fresh flowers and new
wall plants.
See the display below of our house in ‘
Full Bloom’
And our neighbour ' Pilars ' " Bougainvillea " around the corner!
And our neighbour ' Pilars ' " Bougainvillea " around the corner!
For our supper this evening we are having ‘
Goujons of Hake Fillet’ using local breadcrumbs from the bakery, Mushy Peas and
twice-cooked diced ‘Frits’ with homemade ‘Tartar’ sauce on the side & lots
of Lemon wedges! Tomorrow night it’s going to be a large ‘Entrecote’ steak
cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘ Med-Rare’ and then left to rest before
slicing it ‘ French’ style into fingers, Sunday is TBC, watch this space.
On Saturday after supper we are going up to
watch the ‘ Flamenco Fashion’ Show on the stage in front of the Town Hall and
along Calle Mar, at the top of our street!
Last night we had a nice supper at ‘ Bar
Rojas ‘ – Brenda had the Mixed Meats Brochettes ‘ cooked on the BBQ with
vegetables and I had the ‘Iberico Pork
Secreto ‘ also cooked on the BBQ, then sliced and served on crisp ‘ Frits’ –
see the picture below.
We then moved along to ‘Bar Castillo’ before
calling into the ‘Casa de los Torres –
Cultural Centre ‘ to catch some of the ‘ Flamenco & Bulls ‘ concert, it was
music, singing and dancing with a theme of bullfighting, with a story teller,
the band was the ‘Professors of Music’ led by Fernando on the clarinet.
See the pictures above.
Today in the ‘Tour De France ‘ Stage 19
goes from Embrun to Salon.de.Provence over a hilly 222 kms - the longest stage
on this year’s Tour, Chris Froome fought
off his rivals in the last climb of the day and retains the race leaders ‘
Yellow ‘ jersey, he’s going to be
attacked again today, so will have to be very careful, tomorrow it’s the 22 kms
‘ Time Trial’ in Marseille, starting & finishing in the ‘Orange Velodrome’
The last stage on Sunday evening into Paris is ‘ Ceremonial ‘ !
See the maps & route below;
Finally see below some pictures of the
Historic Buildings of Liverpool lit up last night with the rainbow colours. Spectacular!!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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