MANILVA CASA LOS BONIS.

THURSDAY/SATURDAY 12TH./14TH.AUGUST 2010.

On Thursday we took things very easy as this week has been the hottest so far, even the locals are starting to wilt; it is especially hot during the night so you do not get much sleep, the village goes’s dead in the afternoon and early evening and even the children have not been able to play out in evening as usual. They are now saying that it is like the old times when the summer weather was like this all the time, over the last few years it has not been so bad.

After shopping early on Friday morning to beat the sun Brenda also did a little shopping in the village, she met our next door neighbour,Ana Mari, who was in the village shopping as well; she has been away at their Campo now for nearly two months with her husband and brother in law, all the family also goes there so it has been very quiet here! A lot of the village locals have these Campo’s out in the country and disappear all the time to them. We have been dying to go to see one of them so it was great surprise when Ana Mari’s bother in law called on his scooter and asked us to follow him to their Campo!

“Casa Los Bonis” was a very pleasant surprise; it is in the valley below the village and is in the middles of the vine groves, it is a large house with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, large lounge and kitchen with roof balcony and an open garden terrace overlooking their vine fields below. The views are spectacular across the valley and down to the Mediterranean below, behind it are the mountains which at this time of the year look magnificent.
Ana Mari offered us her own coffee with sweet cakes as we sat on the terrace and took in the evening air, we then found out all about their family and past history as we conversed in Spanish ! They are all old school and speak no English except for our names so we have to listen very closely and tell them when we don’t understand and then we answer them in the best way that we can, we were rather proud that we managed so well – we thought ! As well as the grapes that they grow, they have a small press and vats to make their own wine, they grow a lot of vegetables and fruit in the garden which is where we have been getting all our fresh fruit and vegetables from as Ana Mari passed them to us through our kitchen windows ! Whilst we were sat there the family called in and they made us very welcome. The pictures are a little hazy as it was very hot and humid but you can see what a real Campo is like!

PS; We came back with a large tray of sweet green grapes !!

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