MANILVA ,CALLE SAN VICENTE 1

The weather this week has just been gorgeous,warm sun,blue skies and in the early evening beautiful sunsets so we are spending a lot of time on the roof terrace reading and listening to the local FM Radio stations with our G/Ts and Cuba Libre not far from our hands! Later in the week we had a day out to catch up with the shopping and at the same time we found that some of our local furniture shops had some offers on so we found some nice things to go on the first floor landing “Chill Out “ area as you can see in the pictures below,at the same time we found a mirror to go in the top double bedroom which is starting to come together and also a PC station/table and wicker mat for my “ Office “ in part of the dressing room-more picturea to follow. On Friday morning we had a e-mail asking us if we could do some more sales training at the Marriot resort next week,so we are going over for three days in the afternoon and we are payed with vouchers to dine out and for spa treatments.We have also renewed the adverts for the sale of the Winnebago and for our housesitting adding our house number,which we are getting 2/3 calls a day from.Also this week Brenda has been driving the Smart Car around the local large car park next to the market site which is empty in the week for some practise before she hits the roads in a few weeks ! Once my office is ready I am going to start to write a book about life in hotels which has been in my head for years! At the same time I am putting together a proposal for a spot on the local TV stations for a weekly programme in “English “ as I have spotted that there is opening!! It will feature news.local problems.help for local English residents,sport updates,weekly food items and guests as well as the local Spanish news in English!! Watch this space. A star is born !
RESTAURANTE LA MENORAH EN FINCA CORTESIN
On Friday evening we had booked a table at this new restaurant which is run by the same family from the La Menorah restaurant outside Estepona.The owner told us that they had a guest chef coming from Segovia in the region of Castllana outside Madrid and that the menu was going to show all the regional specialities;We started with Venison Carpaccio with herb olive oil that melted in the mouth,the Marinated Game meat with blanched vegetables was served wthe a savoury dressing,the meat was white and gamey ,it was very spectacular.To follow we had a beautiful rich Black Pudding tossed wth scrambled eggs and Pine Nuts-wow!! Next was Wild Mushrooms from Segovia sauteed with Iberian Ham, The main course was Roasted Baby Suckling Pig “ Collado Hermoso Style” accompanied with a boulangere type potatoes and a crisp lettuce and spring onion salad,it is roasted in a very hot oven just with water until the skin is very crisp and the meat falls apart,the juice is to die for!!For the desert it was a small selection of iced sweetmeats,All this was served with for the first few courses a unbelievable white wine from the north of Barcelona-”Carramimbre D.O.Rueda “ We had drunk the bottle before all the starter courses had finished so the owner gave us another bottle! The red wine was “Solaguen Reserva 2001 D.O. Rioja from the same region-it was also very special with a fullbodied “nose” to remember forever! As we left the owner's son presented us with another bottle of the white wine to take home,One “Helluva” night,The pictures below give you a little taste of the atmosphere.