A VERY HOT & SULTRY SUNNY MANILVA ON TUESDAY.

TUESDAY 24^th/ JULY 2018.

We were both up this morning after another very hot & sticky night, ‘Prince Paddy’ spent the night on the marble floor before coming on the bed this morning for his cuddles, which we are going to really miss when he goes home in a week’s time!  

We then got both ourselves ready, slowly, before having our regular light breakfast of ‘ Weetabix’ fresh fruit, toast & tea, we then took little ‘ Paddy’ out for his first walk of the day, down the shady side of the street to the ‘ Mirador’ – Brenda then caught the local Bus down to Sabinillas to go to her Hairdresser, Annie, for the ‘full-works’!  I will collect her later and on the way home we are going to call into the Main Store for a new bedroom fan, watch this space.

NB; The new bedroom fan is installed & running !  " Siesta Time " !! 

This morning in the village the ‘ Council’ workmen are working are ‘full-blast’- the new street as has been washed down & cleaned, the two stages have been put up, they are continuing to erect the new ‘ Diamond’  Multi- Coloured Canopies from the top of the street, they have also in front of ‘ Bar Ocaña ‘ now erected a smaller ‘Diamond’ White Awnings, each Bar is going to have one, at their own cost?! There was a lot of ‘grumbling’ last night when we were out for our late walk, watch this space.  


See below;

   If you look very closely & blow the picture up, you can see Brenda & Paddy on the right!

Meanwhile down on the “ Plaza de la Vendima “ the ‘Contractors’ have removed their ‘Portakabin’ and all the rubbish, the ‘Fairground’ people are unloading and constructing all the rides from six large - ‘Pantechnicon’  lorries! The ‘ Food Stalls’ are starting to appear all along the nearby streets, it will all be ready by Thursday, in time for the four days of Parades, Live Music, Singing, Dancing, Drinking & Eating as the Festival/Feria hit the village! Watch this space.


See the pictures later when we go out with 'Paddy ' for his early evening walk! ( See above !) 

The sun is back in sunny Manilva after yesterday’s cloudy, but still very hot day, it’s going to be very hot and sultry later, hovering on the 34 degs+ mark by lunchtime, the rest of the week and over the ‘ Feria’ weekend we are in for more  of the very ‘ hot-stuff’ – in the high 30s+ at times, with just an occasional light breeze, next week it’s more of the same, watch this space.

At lunchtime on our short walk with 'Paddy' we ended up at ' Bar Ocaña ' for a nice cool drink and some of their excellent 'Tapas' - sat under the new Awning - see above.


PS; It happened to be the only Bar open, as all the other Bars ( 5) were closed and getting ready for the weekend's festivities - this evening none were open!! 

This afternoon we will be watching ‘ Stage 16’ of the “ Tour de France “ as it reaches the foothills of the Pyrenees, going from Carcassonne to Bagnerees De Luchon over a very long 218 kms, over the next three days the winner could be decided, from the two team-mates, either Chris Froome or Geraint Thomas, who is leading at the moment, watch this space.

See the route map below;  

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Pan-Seared Pork Fillet Medallions ‘ garnished with Button Mushrooms, with a small selection of local fresh Vegetables & ‘ Rissole Potatoes’ – accompanied with a creamy Green Peppercorn salsa.

After supper we will be channel hopping to find something to watch!

Thoughts for the Day;  See above.

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