WEDNESDAY 5th/ DECEMBER
2017. “ CONSITUTION DAY “
I was up early this morning to welcome back
‘ Chico’ – he’s with us for six days, until Monday lunchtime, he shot upstairs
and had a little lie in with us as the village is very quiet this morning, more
than normal, as it’s a ‘ Bank Holiday ‘ here in Spain – “ Consitution Day “ –
celebrating the founding of the democracy in 1978.
We then had our regular breakfast of ‘
Weetabix’ toast & tea before sorting out the shopping list for tomorrow
morning, I’m going down on the local bus, to Sabinillas, on my travels, as it’s
another ’Bank Holiday’ on Friday, this time a very religious celebration of the
‘ Immaculate Conception ‘ – the local buses don’t run on the Bank Holidays!
Brenda has just taken ‘ Chico’ for a short
walk, ‘ Chispa’ came calling and joined them, the gas-bottle delivery man was
due to call in, even though it’s a ‘Bank Holiday’ he was still working.
See below ' Chico ' in his bed !
See below ' Chico ' in his bed !
We have another very ‘ crisp’ & cold,
in the shade, day here in sunny Manilva, there is a light breeze but the sun is
out and the sky has cleared, it will reach 16/17 degs by lunchtime, the rest of
the week and over the weekend is staying the same but going a little warmer,
19/20 degs, just in time for the first annual ‘ Manilva Food & Wine
Festival’ – next week is starting to settle down with just a little threat of
some of the wet stuff, on Monday, watch this space.
See below an update picture, taken this
morning, of the progressing work of the ‘ Contractors ‘ along ‘ Calle Mar ‘ – the
water/drain pipes etc, have arrived.
For our supper this evening we are having ‘Pan-Seared
Calves Liver ‘ – dusted in seasoned flour, with grilled ‘English’ Pork Sausages
& Crispy ‘Spanish’ Smoked Bacon, accompanied with a sauceboat of ‘Red Wine
Onion’ Gravy, glazed Carrot Batons with Turnips & diamond-cut Green Beans
and Parsley New Potatoes. On Thursday evening it’s going to be ‘ Grilled
Chicken Wings’ with a baked Potato.
‘ MALAGA NEW UPDATE ‘ – ‘ TUESDAY EVENING ‘
We were first on the bus, yesterday afternoon,
as our names were on the top of list, I booked the seats on the day it was
advertised, there were three bus loads of locals being picked up, from the
village and Sabinillas, we were dropped off in the centre of Malaga, just a
short walk from ‘Calle Larios’ – to be
picked up later at 11-00 pm-ish, there was no breeze so it was not as cold or ‘crisp’
– in fact by later in the evening it was ‘ mild’!
Our first port of call was the only ‘Cafe’
on the main street, which is always very busy with local & visitors, we had
a nice glass of chilled ‘ Cava’ as we sat and waited for the ‘ Son et Lumiere’
light & music show to start at 6-30 pm, as you can see in the pictures
above.
We then moved on to the ‘Plaza de La
Constitution ‘ at the top of ‘ Calle
Larios ‘ to the famous ‘ Cafe Central ‘ to take in the sights & sounds in front of
the Xmas Tree, one of many in the centre of the city, where we had ‘ Benjamin’s’
( Mini-bottles!) of their excellent Cava, the cafe is famous for serving over
50 different types of Malaga coffee, Churros & Hot Chocolate, open
sandwiches & local pastries and ‘Tapas’!
Our next stop was at the “ AC Hotel Malaga
Palacio ‘ ( Marriott Hotels ) where we went up to the 15th floor Roof Top Terrace
– Pool Side - ‘Cocktail Bar’ – we had
spotted it on another visit to Malaga last year, when we ended up on the Big
Wheel at night!
After a little ‘ Lift’ difficulty, you have
to find the express lift, which is unmarked with no buttons! As you can see in
the pictures above it has a spectacular view over the city and the port/marina.
We then ordered our ‘cocktails’ – ‘Bombay Sapphire’ Gin & Tonic for Brenda and
for me an excellent ‘ Caipirinha ‘ – Brazil’s national cocktail made with
Cachaca, sugar & lime juice.
It was then time to find a restaurant for
our ‘Wedding Anniversary Supper ‘ – we were next to the Cathedral and chose ‘Meson
Lo Gueno ‘ in a side street, were we had an excellent meal of their ‘House Chicken
Croquettes’ ( made with ‘Bechamel’ sauce not potato ) followed by a ‘ Confit of Duck Leg ‘ for
Brenda, one of her favourite dishes and for me a very juicy/tasty large ‘ T-Bone
Steak ‘ cooked on the open char-grill ‘ Med-Rare ‘ – both served with the house
‘Skin-on Frits’! The ‘ house’ White & Red wines, by the glass, were very good
and I had a very friendly Bacardi & Coke!
See the pictures below of the ‘ Happy
Couple’!!
Finally we walked back along the very busy
streets to catch our bus back to a very sleepy Manilva, where we arrived back
at 12-45 am feeling no pain!!
This evening after supper we will be
watching the next exciting episode of the excellent ‘ Peaky Blinders ‘
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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