A VERY WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 5^th/ SEPTEMBER 2017.

We had a nice lie in this morning before the delivery men arrived down our street taking goods to our local shop, after freshening up we had our normal light breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ toast & tea, this afternoon we have our appointments with the replacement Chiropodist down at the surgery, otherwise we are taking things very easy after all the celebrations over the weekend.

This morning one of our regular Pension transfers arrived in our Spanish bank account, one day late, this is because the ‘ International Pensions ‘ Payments Section has a ‘USA’ Bank account(?) and it was a ‘ Bank Holiday’ – ‘Labour Day ‘ over in America, yesterday morning we had arranged another transfer, of monthly/annual annuities, from our ‘UK’ bank account in Colwyn Bay, we have an international private banker ‘hot line’ – that transfer arrived in a couple of hours, both were at the lowest exchange rate in 8 years, the Euro v Pound is at basically 1 for 1!

Tomorrow morning I’m going down to our bank in Sabinillas to arrange transfers between accounts, at the same time I will call into the ‘ Movistar’ shop and check out the contact arrangements for the ‘ Fiber Optic’ system installation, watch this space.

We have another glorious day down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘ – the sun broke through earlier and the sky is clear & blue, the breeze has dropped and we are in for a hot & sunny day, by this afternoon it will be 27/28 degs, the rest of the week and over the weekend it’s going to be a little hotter, watch this space.

See below a picture of more progress on the new ' Estepona Hospital ' site;

Last night we watched, for a change, the ‘World Cup ‘ Qualifying football from Wembley as England beat Slovakia 2-1, this evening Spain are in Liechtenstein, meanwhile here in the ‘ Vuelta a Espana 17 ‘ after the rest day it’s the Individual Time Trial around Logroño, Chris Froome is expected to make more time on his rivals, as he’s one of the best Time Trialists in the World, then over the next 4 days, before the finish in Madrid on Sunday, they are all mountain stages with the stiffest on Saturday! Watch this space.

Yesterday evening we had a nice long catch up/chat with Sandra & Bill over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, they are starting to get ready for their trip to Spain at the end of the month, we can’t wait to meet them and show them around  the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ & Andalusia, they are still in ‘BBQ’ mode over there as the weather is still good, they had a lot of old work friends around over the weekend, they have also been out & about to see friends in ‘ Grand Bend’ on Lake Huron, the other day they went to ‘Tobermory’ – the ‘Fresh Water ‘ Scuba’ Diving Capital of the World’ –  as there are multiple shipwreck dive sites in the clear green water on Lake Huron!

As in America, all over Canada, there are town/city names from all over the World, close to them is London & Paris! There is even a Liverpool in ‘Nova Scotia’ on the Atlantic Ocean!! ( and one in New York!)

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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