CASA OLIMPIA UPDATE.

TUESDAY 26th. January 2010.

We are still here in Tarifa, the saga continues! Just to say that nothing has changed in the last month since we last blogged on January 4th! Chris over in London is still madly chasing around the world, New York and Hong Kong being the latest, he was also not very well over the Xmas and New Year period which did not help. Joan has been OK but we had get the doctor in to check her over after she nearly had a very nasty fall, just by luck I walked into her flat and managed to do a flying leap and catch her! Shock then set in, Joan, not me and she was not well for a few days but the doctor gave her a good check up and said that for her age she is in remarkable good health. Boo and Millie are both fine and the two cats are in most over the time on the lower ground floor; the weather is still not good with severe rain storms hitting all the coast from here to Malaga with floods and landslides, the new motorway to Cordoba which has just opened since Xmas was closed after the hillsides above Malaga came down! This is now the worst weather on the Costa del Sol in over sixty years, but we can’t complain as the temperature is still in double figures and we have been able to sit out on the balcony on some days! Small transfers have been coming in and I have been back and forwards to Estepona and Manilva all the time to go to the bank, shops and check out the house as well as to get the Smart car repaired after some damage to the lighting and door locks after getting caught in the storms whilst I was out on the motorway, the house in Manilva is fine, the only problem was that the front door outside sun blind was blown away in one of the storms but one of our neighbors has fixed it back up and secured it in the last week. Meanwhile back at the villa the full menu repertoire has been in full use; Roast Beef, Pork and Chicken on Sunday, Curry, Stews, Pies including our famous Fish pie last Friday, Chicken breast, Pork escalopes, Lamb cutlets, Sausages, Liver and Onions, during the week and all served with Brenda’s selection of vegetables, too many to mention as well as the full range of Potatoes dishes and a very nice Ratatouille last week!
The problem with the internet took a little longer to get fixed as Mano and Anna have been over to Tenerife to see Sally Ann and their grandchildren, and as we needed Mano to come over to the villa as the only way to get it fixed was to have a Spanish speaker on the phone in front of the system to speak to the Telefonica people, they then diagnosed that we had a problem with the router and came out to install a new one within a couple of hours ! So we are back online and will catch up with all the e-mails and Facebook messages over the next few days.