MANILVA.

Saturday 13th September.

After the night before we had a quiet day at home- we thought! On Sunday evening there is a “ Cierre Verano Cultural ” at the top of our street in front of the Town Hall on a new stage; what we did not know was that it started with a very loud Karaoke for the villager’s on Saturday evening from ten pm till three am! The main street was closed off and they had put up five bouncy castles together with face painters for the children with music to sing along too! During the day we happened to be watching Manilva TV when first the news came on and then the highlights of the Grape Festival, so it showed my interview with them and then me crushing the grapes-as you can see in the picture below of our TV!! It was repeated three times during the day! In the evening we had Black Irish Sirloin steaks from the English butchers with frits and then went up to Bar Castillo for a nightcap in the cool air ,sat outside listening to the Karaoke for a while.As I am typing this Ben has just phoned to update us on Carol;she is still on the life support and they are gradually bringing her off and are starting to treat her infections but she is still very critically ill,our thoughts go out to all her family at this very worrying time.