TARIFA.

Wednesday 11th February.

This morning we were up early as we had to go across to see some people about a house sitting job; we set off down the coast road towards Gibraltar and then past and around Algeciras and up the hilly mountain road by the coast and past all the wind farms towards Tarifa.Today was the best day by far ,this year,the temperature reached 22 degs.in the afternoon.We found the villa which is in a spectacular spot on the side of a hill with views to die for;its above the Straites of Gibraltar at their closet spot to Africa,8 miles as the crow flies!! You can see the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and the snow on the top of the Atlas mountains behind the coast,it’s the only place in the world were you can see one Continent from another,so I’am reliabley informed ! Kerry and Chris Derham have lived in the villa for a few years and still have business connections in the UK.They had made contact with us after seeing our advert and we arranged to go and see them this week,Kerry welcomed us and showed us around the large three story villa set in a large hillside garden with a swimming pool with a fine view down to the coast as you can see in the first few pictures.The area is called El Cuarton and is about ten klms. from Tarifa further down the coast. We met the two dogs,and three cats and had a long chat about our past life and adventures,finding that we had a lot of thing in common especially Chris’s love of music ,of all sorts as he has music systems all over the villa,a Juke Box in the Kitchen and the ground floor under the main villa is set up with a mixing table,lights and speakers as well as a bar,his own mini disco! Chris was away in England but I’ve spoken to him on the phone, his mother,Joan, who is a young 91 also lives in a flat in the villa and we are hoping to go and look after the villa next week when they have arranged the dates,watch this spot! Kerry as we were talking recommended a Beach Bar down the coast just past Tarifa at TorreDeLaPena as a good place to go for a spot of lunch;the other pictures below will give you a taste of the views and its position on the sea front overlooking the African coast,Brenda had the Lentil Stew and I had Pan fried slivers of Liver with Frits!As you can see Gissy has done another fine job on Brenda’s hair! On the way back we called into the very large Hypermarket outside Algeciras to pick up a new DVD.player with the latest Digital channels all included for 36 euros!! The next good news update should be on babies as Yola,in Switzerland and Michelle in Preston Carol two daughters, are expecting their second babies any day now,Watch this space!!