CASA ABUELA.

Friday 17th April.

On Friday morning we went across to Guadalmina to take Carolyn to the airport in Malaga and used the Range Rover, the builders have moved in to their villa and have started on the work to re-wirer-plumb the whole building and then rebuild various parts and put in new windows everywhere as well as new roofs on different parts. On the way back we called into the supermarket to pick some essentials and as we left the car park around a back road which has cars parked on both sides I saw a Blacked Out Range Rover coming towards me at great speed so I pulled over as far as I could; it shot past and took off the wing mirror! It did not stop and shot off into the distance,not a good start! We stopped at Casa Palazana which is just around the corner from Clive and Carolyn’s villa,this is were they are staying for the next three months in an apartment on the ground floor and the owners Tony and Yvonne made us very welcome into their beautiful villa ,as you can see in the pictures below.We then went around to the villa to check out the dogs,Bruno and Abbie as well as the two house cats and one of the wild cats that has just had babies! We also made contact with the builders as we are watching what they are doing; Carolyn left us a list about the current work to be done. At the same time I tried to log on to catch up with the blog only to find that it was not working due to technical difficulties !.In the evening we went across to El Rosario just past Marbella to the Cantina Beach biergarten-grill where Vidal was playing to surprise them! The pictures below show Vidal in full flow and Gissy looking great! This is were the evening went a bit wrong, I started to get pain around my Kidney’s just after arriving similar to my Colic attack last June and the first one in France in 2000 when I ended up in hospital with Renal Colic!! We went back to the apartment and as the night went on it got worse,Brenda,at 4-00am had to ring Yvonne as we did not know the address of the villa as she was going to ring Helicopteros Sanitarios which we joined last year after the last attack in June; they are the main medical help on the Costa Del Sol,and they attend to you very quickly with two medics and an English speaking doctor, the Spanish system is very similar but the language problem can be difficult at a stressful time.They stabilize you and if necessary they transport you to the hospital by Helicopter;They put me on a drip and after 30 mins,I was feeling no pain! The doctor then gave Brenda prescriptions for a course of tablets which she picked up later in the morning.