39th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS 2010.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY/MONDAY 27TH/28TH/29TH NOVEMBER 2010.

During the night we have had a bad and very heavy rain storm which finally stopped at 6-00pm; the fish pond is overflowing and the swimming pool is over the sides! The weather for the weekend is more of the same so we will have to get about in between showers. On Saturday evening we went for dinner at Restaurante Victor down in Guadalmina; this was the start of our anniversary weekend celebrations and we had an excellent meal, we started with our usual drinks and the house specialty of Deep fried Prawn and vegetable fritters in a very tasty and light Tempura Batter, Brenda had the Whole Sea Bass baked in the oven with a Lemon sauce with savory sliced potatoes and I had a rich Tomato Soup laced with Gin and followed by a large medium rare Sirloin Steak with Patata Fritas both accompanied with very fine Green Beans, the house Rioja is also excellent and we then treated ourselves to a half bottle of vintage Taittinger Rose to finish off the evening.

After a lie in on Sunday morning we pottered about the villa and got ready to go out for Sunday Lunch down at Tricky Ricky’s. The sun was out and it soon got hot so we were able to sit out on the terrace again and have our Roast Beef and Pork in the afternoon sunshine; as usual the Sunday roast was terrific and the finger licking gravy is to die for. We then went for a drive and this time headed up along the coast towards Estepona and found a beach restaurant we have been looking to find, it is called Tikatano and it is in an unbelievable setting by the beach overlooking Gibraltar, Africa and the mountains behind Estepona, it is closed for refurbishment so we will give it a visit in the new year.

On Monday morning for our anniversary breakfast we had Scrambled Eggs with Smoked Pink Trout (nicer) and Pink Cava to start the day in the right fashion; over night we had another rain storm which did not stop till 4-00 pm but as the gardeners came in they unblocked the pond overflow and let the pool down to its normal level; in the evening we went for dinner to the restaurant at the Marriott Resort which we had not been to before and used some of the vouchers that we had be given when we did some sales training for them earlier in the year. The picture’s below show the resort with the anniversary girl by the pool. We had another excellent meal with very good and attentive service, we started with our usual drinks, Brenda had the Carpaccio of Beef and I had Langoustines Pil Pil – to follow Brenda had the catch of the day, Sole fillets filled with Whole Prawns and cooked on a skewer garnished with Wild Mushrooms and a Red Pepper salad,she also had a portion of fresh blanched Spinach leaves whilst I had a rare Fillet steak cut English style with Button Mushrooms and chips. The house Rioja helped the meal along before we settled in the bar for coffee,I had a Caipirinha which was just right and we brought home a bottle of vintage Piper Heidsieck for another celebration ! This weekend was a practice for next years 40th celebrations – watch this space !!

PS; We have just received a text from Clive and Carolyn to say that they are stuck in Barbados and can’t get their flight home into London ! They are not due back here until next Tuesday so this could get interesting, watch for a news update


Thought for the Day;

If you believe everything you read, better not read.


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