MANILVA.

Thursday 16th October.


This morning we had a lie in as it is the last chance before our travels! Today is yet another sunny day so we are going for a walk after we finish the packing. This evening Gissy is calling in to cut our hair as Vidal has a gig down in Porta Duquesa.In the morning Mano is dropping us at the border and when we get to Manchester we will pick up a hire car in the airport and go across to North Wales to stay with Tim and Thea.They are out on Saturday so we are going to Liverpool for the day,watch out for the pictures,on Sunday we will spend the day with them and Monday is the day of the funeral in Port Sunlight,later the family have booked into the Bridge Inn,next to the church in the village which will bring back a lot of very happy memories as Carol and Fred met in the cocktail bar,the same as we did over forty years ago!On Tuesday we have an appointment with our bank to finalize arrangements on our account and then we going across to the Wirral again and are going to call into Arrowe Park hospital to see Jane’s mom,Nan,who is not very well at the moment, so we are going to surprise her with some flowers! Nan’s late husband ,Bert, who was the manager at the Bridge Inn that I went to work for after leaving The Stork Hotel in Liverpool and it was him that told me to catch and marry Brenda although it did not take much persuading as I had the same idea!!We are then going to call in and see one of Brenda’s sisters who also lives on the Wirral before we go back to NorthWales to pack and spend our last night with Tim and Thea, as our flight is very early on Wednesday morning back to Gibraltar and home in Manilva for lunch.We will then catch up with the blog page and all the news about our travels as we are then moving across to Gualdalmina at the weekend to house sit for Clive and Carolyn for two weeks at their beautiful villa.