MANILVA.

Thursday 19th February.

In the morning Mano picked me up as we had to go across to Tarifa to check out the villa with his partner for this job,Mark who is multi talented in all departments of the building industry and has worked for Mano as well as himself for many years.Brenda and Anna met in the village for coffee and a chat.Mano has another site meeting arranged for Saturday morning when Chris will be home and they will hopefully progress with a contract. Meanwhile we are waiting to hear from Kerry about next week and when she wants us,which means that we are at home this weekend but we have now found out that the Carnival weekend in Manilva is not until the 6/7th March! At the moment on the TV it is showing live, all the time the Carnival in Cadiz which goes on for a week and is the third biggest in the world and the biggest in Spain.The Carnival in Spain has been going on since the 17thc and is the pre-lenten “ Blow Out ”before the abstinence to Easter.In the very old opera house in Cadiz they have on each evening the various Chirigotas and Comparsas which are a cross between Barbershop quartets and Monty Python,they are satirical musical groups which have the audiences in stitches with their irreverent renditions,all very Spanish!! After a late lunch/early dinner we went down to Mano and Anna’s to watch the football with Carlos as it was Manchester City playing FC Copenhagen in the UEFA cup,it was a draw but at least City scored two away from home so they should win the second leg back in Manchester!