MANILVA.

Wednesday 19th August 2009.


We had our tea and toast with fresh fruit on the terrace before we went across to the hypermarket in Estepona for a change to stock up for the weekend; as we came back into the village Mano,Anna and Carlos were sat outside Bar Rochas so we joined them for a lunchtime drink in the shade of the trees along Calle Mar and caught up with the local gossip, mainly political as we were sat in front of the town hall and at the moment there are all sorts of coming and goings on the council! They invited us around in the evening for supper;Mano had prepared some very nice Tapas and Anna produced one “ Helluva ”Beef and Potato pie as you can see in the picture below! We then watched the live football as Atletico Madrid were playing Panathinaikos in Greece,they won 3-2 and it was a very exciting match, the girls went out on the terrace and put the world to rights! Mano then took us up to the village and we stopped at Morena’s bar for a carajillo only to find Carlos watching a match that we had forgotten about! He had gone home after work and changed into his City shirt and brought Fabio in his shirt as well to watch Manchester City play Barcelona in an invitation cup game at the Nue Camp stadium in Barcelona with nearly one hundred thousand spectators in the ground, Carlos who is a very avid City supporter also follows Barcelona as his team in Spain, unbelievable City scored in the first twenty mins.and held on, just to win!