A WARM & SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 20^th/ FEBRUARY 2018.

No lie in this morning as we had to be up and ready to see ‘ Chico’ off, we took him for his first walk of the day, after grabbing a quick toast & tea, we met his ‘Grandad’- who was collecting him, in the ‘ Plaza de la Vendemia ‘ - he will be back with us again, soon, Lucy is letting us know about some other dates, this evening we have a surprise visitor ‘ Scruffy’ is back with us for a short sleep over as Adrian is back in hospital tomorrow morning for a check up after his hip-replacement operation, Rose is dropping him off this evening ( Scruffy not Adrian!) – ‘Reina’ is also with us from Wednesday morning, as usual, she’s also with us on Thursday/Friday mornings,  ‘ Chispa’ has just called in to see us and her friends, watch this space.

We have a milder start to the day, this morning, the sun broke through earlier and the ski is clearing, there is just a very slight breeze, making it rather more pleasant to be out & about, by lunchtime it’s forecast to reach 18/19 degs+ - the rest of the week and over the weekend has also settled down, no wet stuff on the horizon, for now, reaching 20 degs+ at times, before it goes a little cooler over the weekend, next week is not looking so good, the wet stuff is back, all week, and going cooler, leading up to the 1^st March! Watch this space.

See below a spectacular view, along the coast to Gibraltar and across the Straits to the Rif Mountains in Morocco and Africa taken from the ‘Sierra Bermeja’ mountain behind sunny Manilva!

In the ‘E-Mails’ this morning there was a message from our dear friends/old customers Terry & Alma, who now live outside Caen, in the ‘ Normandy region of northern France, last year they were on holiday in the ‘ Vandee’ region of North West France, on the Atlantic coast and visited the port of St Nazaire, were they saw in the shipyard the World’s largest cruise liner being built “ The Symphony of the Seas “ – with 6,680 passengers & 2,200 crew, 230,000 gross tonnage, length 1,188 feet, 18 decks and a top speed of 22 knots! She will be based in Barcelona and is due into the port of Malaga at the end of March.

See below a picture of “ The Symphony of the Seas “ on her sea trials.

Meanwhile on ‘ Facebook’ messenger Tim & Thea sent us some pictures of a surprise/late 60^th birthday celebration, that took place last weekend for Thea, Tim had booked a large villa on the coast and Jo & Ben flew over with some of the ‘ Old Colwyn Crew ‘ – Jo had put together  a  special birthday video, from family & friends, we recorded our message a few weeks ago and sent it to Jo up in Madrid, we are speaking to the folks later this afternoon to get all the news, details & gossip, watch this space.

See below a couple of pictures;

At lunchtime we went along to ' Bar Castillo ' for a nice cool drinks and some light Tapas, Brenda had her favourite ' Boquerones en Vinagre' - fresh Anchhovie Fillets and I had my favourite  ' Tortillitas de Camerones ' - Shrimp Fritters!

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Pan-Seared Lambs Liver’ ( Spanish) – dusted in seasoned flour, with grilled ‘English’ Pork Sausages & Crispy ‘Spanish’ Smoked Bacon, accompanied with a Red Wine Mushroom, Onion & Shallot Gravy, with Cabbage with Acelgas (Swiss Chard) glazed Carrot Batons and Brenda’s famous ‘ Mashed Potato’ – the aromas of the ‘Cabbage’ are wafting upstairs and out into the street!

Last night after supper we watched the first episode of ‘ Marcella’ starring Anna Friel in the title role, as a Detective in the Murder squad of the Metropolitan police, with a rogue’s gallery of characters, a body of a schoolboy was discovered buried in between two walls! She has issues, is sour faced & surly, has sporadic fugue states and is suicidal and has a mixed-up personal life, leftover from the first series!

This afternoon we will be catching up with the second episode of Collateral’ on the ‘ BBC I Player’ as Carey Mulligan gets into the investigation of the shooting and uncovers the story behind the killing, it promises to be a ‘ Helluva’ episode, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.  

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