MANILVA/TARIFA.

Saturday/Monday 14th/16th February.

Saturday 14th February.

After our busy day of watching the various football matches during the day we had a night at home, with Steak and Frits for supper with a nice bottle of Rioja and then settled down to a film on TV.

Sunday 15th February.

We had a lie in on Sunday morning,it must be all the fresh air! and then sorted ourselves out around the house before we went up to Bar Rojas for our lunchtime “ Taster” of Rosado and a slice of the freshly made Tortilla, by the owners wife.Mano then called in after looking after Fabio in the morning and came back to our house in the afternoon for Brunch,the full works! Later we met Carlos,after he had finished work,in the “ Office ”and we also bumped into a friend of Mano’s and Carlos,Paul with his three sons who we had met at the football on Saturday;at the same time quite a lot of the Manilva team came into the Bar so I was able to update the blog on the match with all the names and more information and give them our blog details to check it out!

Monday 16th February.

When we over in Tarifa last week to meet Kerry at Casa Olimpia at El Cuarton she mentioned that they were looking to find somebody to paint and repair the outside of the villa;so when we got back we asked Mano if he was interested in the job as he has a building business with his best friend in the village Juan and he has all the contacts.After our visit last week Kerry phoned us to book us for five/six days this week from Wednesday and so this morning, after speaking to Chris over the weekend, we had made an appointment to take Mano over to Quote for the job and at the same time make the arrangements to look after the villa with Chris and Kerry.Chris made us very welcome, as we had not met him before and Mano is putting the quote together as we speak.I took the pictures of the villa from outside in the garden to show all the windows,damp damage and iron work and have just e-mailed them to Mano.Mano dropped us back outside the butchers in the village so we are having Braised Steak and Onions for dinner,Mano is picking up Anna from the airport in Malaga this evening and we are starting to get ready to move over to Tarifa early on Wednesday morning,we will be there until Monday and I am hoping to update the blog and put some pictures on whilst we are there as the weather forecast is good. It sounds like we will get some regular bookings from Chris so we are looking forward to our stay in Casa Olimpia.Whilst we are away this weekend it is Carnival time in the village,last year we missed it as we were away on our first job above Marbella,just after we had moved in, and so we will have to catch it another year,the following weekend it is Andalucia Day and there are all sorts of things happening in the village,outside the Town Hall at the top of our street so watch out for the pictures and all the news as it is also the weekend of the Derby match!