CASA DEL ABUELO.

Friday/Thursday 8th/14th/ May.

We went over to Guadalmina Alta first thing in the morning and dropped Clive and Carolyn off at the Airport in Malaga; Carolyn has arranged a flight to Dublin and a five night stay at a top hotel together with tickets to the Eric Clapton concert as a surprise for Clive ! They had a “ Helluva ” time in one of our favorite cities and took in all the sights and sounds, went to the theatre and the cinema as well as eating and drinking ,a little, in Temple Bar !! Meanwhile back at Casa del Abuelo,which is a building site with no electricity or water,hence no blog for six days,we settled Bruno and Abbie down and found the two house cats to feed,as well as the fish in the pond.The weather at the moment is warm and very sunny all day with a little breeze and over the weekend the dogs had the large garden to run wild in and also their new home and area was ready. On Saturday evening we treated our selves to dinner at Restaurante “ Victor ”down in Guadalmina next to the golf course; it was rather special and we had an excellent meal, I had to start a freshly made Cream of Tomato soup,laced with Gin! Brenda had a whole Sea Bass baked to order with sliced savoury potatoes and sauce, brought to the table in the large cooking tray and then filleted and skinned, delicious! and I had a large,thick Sirloin Steak with Frits which just melted in the mouth,together with the old fashioned service it was night to remember and well worth another visit in the not too distant future ! On Sunday we had a lazy day and got the dogs into a routine; run in the garden,then walk and back to the garden and sleeping in the garage as per normal. As we arrived on Monday morning from the apartment around the corner, where we stayed last time we discovered that the villa was going to turn into a full blown disaster site with 7/8 workmen,drilling ,knocking down,plastering,plumbing etc.all day except for their one hour siesta at two ‘clock! We kept the dogs out of the way and took them for long walks on the beach at Cancelada,the cats just kept out of the way! At night the dogs stayed in the garage as Carolyn had told us that they had not yet settled into their new home/shed in the garden area that was fenced off just for them. We also in the evening after the workmen had left were able to go for a swim in the pool, all very refreshing and bracing ! Brenda had discovered a short cut and was able to walk around early in the morning,as she came out of the apartment entrance on Wednesday morning she found to her great surprise Bruno sat out side next to the Toyota !! One of the workmen had opened the garage doors and he had escaped, five workmen including the boss man were running round the roads frantically looking for him! The end result was that we had to move the two dogs into their new home and leave them there for the night; Brenda could not sleep for worrying about them and shot round very early in the morning to check on them,no problems and when we call them to go in they just go as good as gold! Result !! We picked Clive and Carolyn up from the airport late on Thursday evening and on the way home they looked at all the photographs that I had taken of all the work progressing !