A VERT HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY.

SUNDAY 13^th/ MAY 2018.

We had a nice lie in this morning before having a very quiet time, slowly getting ready to go out for lunch, for our breakfast, to set us up for the day we had ‘ Toasted English Pork Sausage Butties’ – open on Brown, as usual for Brenda, smothered in ‘ HP ‘ Sauce, with mugs of strong tea.

We then made our way down to the ‘Council’ underground car-park and collected the car to go across to outside Puerto Banus to meet up with Joyce ‘Baby’ at 1-30 pm on the roundabout by the ‘La Sala Restaurant’  -as she was coming down from Alhaurin el Grande in her friends borrowed car.

By lunchtime it was already very hot & sunny, the sky was bright blue and there was just a very light breeze, perfect for the time of the year, by this afternoon it was into the mid 20s, the hottest day of the year, so far, next week is looking warm & sunny, hovering on the 21/22 degs+ mark, except on Thursday when it’s forecast to be cloudy, cooler & wet?! The rest of the week and over next weekend is then back to normal, with sunshine and warmer weather, watch this space.

As we set off along the coast road past Estepona, the ‘Mediterranean’ was sparkling in the lunchtime sunshine, we waited for 15 minutes before calling Joyce on Brenda’s mobile, mine was not working, she is normally not late, she had left a message/call on my mobile, at around 1-00 pm, to say that she had broken down, up in the hills behind Marbella and was waiting for her friends to come and help her!!  So sadly she could not make our ‘ Sunday Roast Lunch’ to have a good chat and catch up, we are ringing her later to see if we can meet up again before she goes back to Chester, watch this space.

We then came back along the coast road to a very warm & sunny ‘Castillo de la Duquesa’ to ‘La Taberan 2 ‘ where Carlos greeted us warmly and brought our cool drinks along as we selected from the menu, Brenda had the ‘ Cod Fishcake’ to start and I had the ‘ Salmon Surprise ‘ salad, Brenda ordered the ‘Roast Lamb’ and I had the ‘Roast Beef’ with a selection of vegetables, as you can see below;

For dessert I had the Homemade ( lady owners)  “ Bakewell Tart “ – a Shortcrust pastry shell between layers of Raspberry Jam, Frangipane and a topping of Flaked Almond, served with Whipped Cream, Fresh Rasperries & Vanilla Ice Cream – it’s delicious, very tempting, so much so that I started to eat it before I took a picture, sorry!

We then headed back up to the hills for our first ‘ Siesta ‘ of this year, this evening we are channel hopping to find something to watch.

Over the past day or so we have been in touch with the families over in Australia & Canada’ on Facebook etc, as it’s their ‘Mother’s Day ‘ today, it was the ‘Spanish’ one last Sunday and the ‘English’ one earlier in March! So to all the ‘ Mother’s’ –  wherever you are - “ Happy Mother’s Day “ !! 

NB; Tomorrow’s ‘Blog’ will also be posted later as we are out in the morning, going across to ‘Fuengirola’ to meet up with our friend Julie and her family, watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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