MANILVA - TARIFA - MANILVA.

Wednesday 18th February.

The day started early as we had to be over to Casa Olimpia above Tarifa before nine o’clock to check out the villa and finalize the details with Kerry as she was on a flight from Gibraltar at lunchtime.We travelled down the coast road towards Sotogrande and saw for the first time the most spectacular sunrise on the horizon above the calm Mediterranean waters on a beautiful clear ,crisp morning ; if we had the time we would have stopped and taken some pictures as the sky was all the shades of red and the sun rose very quickly,I would have won the Sur newspaper competition with no problem and might of even got a picture on the RTVE weather programme! Something for another day!!We arrived in plenty of time and settled into the villa,Kerry got ready and packed her bags and did not seem in a rush as we set off to the airport in Gibraltar, we had to stop for petrol as the tank was low and also stop at a cash machine outside La Linea,the border town next the airport.I dropped Kerry at the border crossing just a hundred yards from the airport check in and set off back to Tarifa in the VW,w8 saloon and at the same time I was timing myself so as to plan to do the pick up run,driving down I drove in chauffeur mode and going back The VW which is a very fast car soon had me back at the bottom of the hill up towards Tarifa when my phone rang,it was Chris ringing from London to say that Kerry had missed the check in by one minute and Easy Jet would not let her board! So I had to turn around and go back to Gibraltar to pick her up sooner then we thought! Meanwhile Brenda has unpacked the Smart car and had stocked up the fridge and set up home! We arrived back and Kerry opened a bottle of chilled Cava to help us get over the surprise and to make new arrangements; we made a sandwich and sat on the balcony overlooking the Straites of Gibraltar,Joan,Chris’s mum came down and joined us later for tea and biscuits. By late afternoon it was decided that we would try again next week as Kerry could not re arrange her meetings and flight; so we packed the Smart car and set back off towards Manilva as the sun set over the mountains behind us! After getting home we rang Mano and Anna to let them know about our day and ended up going down to their house were Mano gave me a master class in making a real Spanish Omelette!!