BENAHAVIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

WEDNESDAY/SUNDAY 17TH/21ST NOVEMBER 2010.

Well it’s another week over here in Guadalmina and the weather is holding; cool at night but with clear blue skies during the day and with the sun it gets warm by the early afternoon. All’s quiet at the villa and all the animals are fine, the builder has not turned up but after a little chasing (Wrong number left) it turns out that he had been taken into hospital with Appendicitis ! Also this week Joan’s home help has had to go back to England for a check up and possible operation so we had to call up the standby lady who luckily was available and came this morning; we also shot over to the house to get the post and check that everything was all right as well as pick up my tablets from the chemists. The only problem was that the shutters on the front door had blown away during a very windy night in Manilva;our neighbours have found it and it will be back up by the end of the week. Everyday we at lunchtime eat out on the terrace as it still so calm and warm and on Sunday when we were out for lunch at Tricky Ricks it were very hot on their terrace; it is rather strange eating a full English roast as the sun beats down on you ! We are eating all our usual food but we have to split ourselves between the two kitchens as the downstairs one is small; we had a pan of Scouse on one night which we had frozen and brought over, on Friday we had Fillets of Fish which were very expensive and which I’ve forgotten the name off; it was a large flat fish with Black and White markings and the flesh was firm, it was delicious. Over the weekend it was more sport, England won again in the Rugby and Liverpool also won but yesterday the match of the weekend was when Manchester City beat Fulham 4 – 1

BENAHAVIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON;

After lunch on Sunday it was so nice that we decided to go for a drive and so headed in land through the hills and went to Benahavis;we have nor been their before but had heard about from friends. It is not far from the villa and the road is rather spectacular as it winds its way through a narrow gorge to the breathtakingly beautiful Moorish mountain village. It is known as the Gastronomical capital of the Costa del Sol and we soon found out why; the small village has over thirty restaurants mainly along the high street and the narrow street that runs adjacent to it. The road slowly narrows to a car width and most of it is one way so you have to go around a couple of times to get your bearings; it was full of cars and we had to park on the end of the village and walk back in.Allthough over half of the restaurants were closed at this time of the year it was still very busy and all the restaurants were doing good business especially the “ Los Abanicos ” in the pictures below; as we came into the main part we came across the “Amanhavis Hotel and Restaurant, it is a small boutique hotel with an elegant atmosphere and has nine theme – related suits. All the restaurants are not cheap and it is definitely a celebration visit place ! As you enter the village there is even a Hotel and Restaurant school. The village is spread out over the side of the hills and down into the valley where there is a rather Grand Hotel and not far away is the golf complex where Michelle Obama stayed earlier in the year in the even grander hotel which is which is reputed to be the best in Europe ! The pictured below give you just a little taste of the village and we are sure to go back in the future when we are celebrating something; speaking of which a week today is our wedding anniversary but we have made plans for that all ready !!

Thought for the Day;

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.


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