MANILVA NEWSLETTER

The pictures below show our new house in Manilva on a sunny day at the end of February,the villa on the golf course was rather nice with it's views down to the 13th fairway and the Beach House restaurant which we went to twice is also in a very spectacular setting on the beach past Marbella. When we last reported to you we where housesitting at the villa with a fish,hampster and a Jack Russel,we picked up the owner and his son from the airport at Malaga on Sunday evening in his top of the range-Range Rover and he has booked us again for Easter week when he is going to Portugal.Whilst we were there we went out for dinner on the Friday evening to The Beach House and used one of the vouchers from the Marriot sales day training so we went for a drink before to the Don Carlos piano bar which is set above the pools and overlooking the sea.The meal of sauteed Kidneys with Colcanna potatoes and fried Tampura Prawns,followed by Rib-Eye steak with Bearnaise sauce was washed down with a half bottle of Chablis and a half bottle of a excellent Rioja as we watched the sun set over Gibraltar.We also stayed in a couple of nights and caught up with all the British soaps and watched some films,On the Sunday before we picked them up from the airport we had planned to go to a restaurant at Cabopino but as we set off we changed our minds and called into The Beach House as it was Mothers Day,they were full but fitted us in later at 4-30,When we got back the place was bouncing and we ended up on a nice table overlooking the view,Once again we used another voucher and ended up having the finest Sunday lunch we have ever had!The Roast Rib of Beef was rare and served on a fresh yorkshire pudding with creamed leeks,honey roasted parsnips,fine green beans,glazed baby carrotts and broccoli all served with fresh crisp roast potatoes and proper gravy,accompanied with freshly grated Horseradish!! When we asked for more roast potatoes and gravy they arrived hot and steaming!!It was so special because of the setting,the weather, the standard of the food and it was our first time out for Mothers Day lunch in nearly 40 years !!! This week we have been settling into the house and have finished the unpacking and we now making it into our home,Over the weekend Mano rang us to say that he and Anna were starting work running the bar and supermarket at the Manilva Green Aparthotel on Monday so we called into to see them on Monday morning and christened the bar! Their son Carlos is working on reception so the Guerrero “Family” are taking over!Watch this space!!From now on we are going to put weekly newsletters on the blog-page to keep you up with what's happening to us in sunny Manilva.Yesterday we called into the garage and checked out the Winnebago,we have had many phone calls from our advert and passed on the best contacts to Charles the German owner.The Winnebago looks very smart and clean inside and our thanks to Vidal and Gissy and Charles has put it in his advert in the car sales paper which came out today,it looks spectacular !Again watch this space; we have also put our two unused bike's in the paper together with all the gear!!At the same time we have had quite a few enquiries from our housesitting advert including one for horse's-we said neh!!I have listed below once again our new address and phone numbers for info;On the blog page we have also had a couple of new posted comments,one from Penny our dear friend in Bridgnorth who we will e-mail in the next few days and one from”Oscar” in Conwy who we don't know but who has a very interesting blog-page;please give our kind regards to Barry Edwards our first wine merchant some 38 years ago in Bedgelert!
CALLE SAN VICENTE 1
29261 MANILVA.
MALAGA
SPAIN.
952890548- HOUSE.
628529975-SPANISH MOBILE
07717746107-BRENDA MOBILE