WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY/FRIDAY
On Wednesday morning we had a little lie in after the excitement of Tuesday’s Santa Ana Festival; we then had an easy day at home doing nothing as it was hot, we walked Cheta around to the butchers in the morning to pick up some Pork Cutlets for supper before we settled down to the watch the film of the week ‘The Vikings ’They don’t make films like these nowadays!
As we got up on Thursday morning the water was off again so we had to raid the spring outside to keep us going; we have three sorts of water we use, bottled water for drinking, spring water for our tea and coffee and the council water is for washing and showering! The weather forecast for the next seven days is more sun and getting hotter, especially the nights. We are able to go out on the roof terrace for our Cocktail Hour or Two
as the sun has moved around by then, we are also at this time of the year able to play our music full blast as our neighbours are away at their Campo's as lots of people in the village are; Bonnie Raitt is currently on the play list along with 50s/60s blues ! For supper we had Eggs,Sausage,Baked Beans and chips before we watched ‘ The Tudors ’ We are up to the fifth Queen and Cromwell has just had the chop ! Over the last few nights I have been watching on TVE2, in the early hours of the morning, the ‘ Hondarribia Blues Festival’ It’s a town in the Basque region above San Sebastian, each evening it was different acts on stage starting with Johnny Winters and followed by Paul Butterfield,The Mannish Boys and loads more; the crowd are really into the music and the atmosphere is electric ! Last nights concert was a Jam Session and featured on the electric piano a 97 year old blues legend ‘ Pinetop Perkins ’and one of the finest Harmonica players I’ve ever seen ‘ Sugar Blue ’he is dressed all in black and has a leather Bandero across his chest with all his different Harmonica’s in pouches which he swaps all the time ! The backing band of Guitar, Bass Guitar and Drum’s were very good and the sound was unbelievable.
Today we went down to Sabinillas for the shopping, called into our local market for fresh flowers and stopped at the butchers for our Entrecote Steak for Saturday; tonight we are having Salmon Fillets with New Potatoes and Green Beans. We then walked up to Bar Rojas with Anna for a lunch time drink. This weekend down on the Paseo Maritimo in Sabinillas it is the ‘ International Festival ’ with stalls, food and music from all different countries as well as our local contributions from the Brass Band and the
NB; It is now only 35 days to the Vendimia Festival and counting !
Thought for the Day;
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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