A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY.

SATURDAY 26^th/ AUGUST 2017.

We had a little lie in this morning as the village is very quiet, no deliveries, no church bells and no children out playing, we are having a easy weekend, doing nothing, we are not going down to the ‘ Feria’ in Sabinillas, it means that the village is dead, especially in the evening.

‘Chispa’ has been in to see us this morning, yesterday when Lee & Daniela collected ‘ Reina’ they popped in and reset the ‘ Amazon Fire TV Stick’ system, I now know how to sort it out on the computer in the office/studio, ‘Reina’ is back with us in ‘ Doggy World Heaven’ for three days from Wednesday next week, it’s a ‘ Bank Holiday in Gibraltar on Monday, so they don’t work.

For our breakfast this morning I had ‘Crispy Smoked Bacon & ‘ Campo’ Fried Eggs’ with buttered toast & tea, Brenda had a ‘ Crispy Smoked Bacon’ on Brown toast, see my breakfast below!

This evening we are having ‘ Grilled Fillet Steaks ‘ cooked on a very hot griddle plate ‘ Med-Rare’ – then left to rest, garnished with seared Asparagus Spears & Button Mushrooms and ‘ French Fried’ Onion rings ( Milk & Flour) with the classic ‘ Bearnaise’ sauce on the side, Whole Green Beans and of course twice-cooked ‘ Chips’ 

Tomorrow evening it’s going to ‘ Baked English Pork Chops ‘ with all the trimmings.

The sun was out early this morning but it’s still a little cloudy and overcast, as forecast, tomorrow it’s the same, hovering on the 30 degs mark, then on Monday we are in a for a ‘ Cold Snap’ - by our standards, down to 24/25 degs, 19 overnight, with some of the wet stuff hitting us, by Thursday we are getting back to normal for the time of the year, just in time for the ‘ Vendimia Wine Festival’ next weekend here in the village, reaching 28/29 degs & rising, watch this space.

See the picture below of ‘ Llyn Ogwen ‘ at the foot of ‘Tryfan’ ( the 'Eiger' of Snowdonia!) - out of site on the left, with the famous A5 running alongside, we have been past it many times in the early 70/80s.

A busy weekend of sport; over here in ‘ La Liga’ Barcelona travel to Alaves, Real Madrid are at home to Valencia, in the ‘ Premier League’ in the UK, the early kick-off is down in Bournemouth when they welcome Manchester City, tomorrow Everton travel down to Chelsea and Arsenal come up to play Liverpool! The ‘ Grand Prix’ is at Spa in Belgium after returning from the summer break, meanwhile today’s Stage 8 of the ‘ Vuelta a Espana 17 ‘ goes from Hellin to Xorret de Cati over 199 kms, a medium mountain stage with a nasty sting in the tail, see the route map below.

Yesterdays stage ended in ‘Cuenca’ – a  “ Unesco World Heritage Site “ -  it’s a more substantial town than we thought, it’s famous for it’s well preserved ‘ Casa Colgades – Hanging Houses ‘ – our very dear friends from Canada, Sandra & Bill, are staying there, in a loft apartment, for one night on their way across to Valencia after leaving Madrid, in the last week of September, see the pictures above taken off the TV screen!

Last night after supper we channel hopped and later over on ‘ BBC Four’ we caught a live performance from the Reading Festival by ‘ Kasabian’ – it was a ‘Helluva’ concert, the sound of the singers and the band was excellent and the backing lighting effects were spectacular, I’ve seen them before, they are one of the top – ‘live’ concert groups in the country, catch them if you can!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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