MANILVA THIS WEEKEND.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 27^th/ 28^th/ AUGUST 2011.

After breakfast on Saturday morning it was a catching up with the housekeeping day, meanwhile I caught up with Facebook, E-mails and the blog; my only problem is that the channel on which I watch most of the sport,MYP2P has gone off line so I am limited in what I can see. I can follow the Vuelta on its page with a live coverage to EuroSport in English and the Grand Prix from Spa on a La Sexta TV channel but sadly no Rugby, England beat Ireland in Dublin and put in a good performance in their last friendly match before the World Cup in New Zealand. Sadly no Football so I missed Liverpool beating Bolton 3-1 on Saturday then on Sunday Manchester City won at Spurs 5-1 and went top of the Premier League above Liverpool only to see Manchester Utd take the top spot an hour later, on goal difference, when they totally humiliated the Arsenal 8-2 in the match of the day! On Sunday evening I saw all the goals on theTDP sports channel along with Real Madrid winning 6-0 at Real Zaragoza as the Spanish Liga finally started after the strike. In the evening we had steak and salad for supper before watching a film.

On Sunday lunchtime we went up to Bar Rojas and had the Paella as it finished cooking, they were busy with Spanish holiday makers and everybody had the Paella; Antonio, our neighbour, who is 88 in a months time, joined us and on the next table under the Sonbrajo there was a couple from La Inea who we got chatting to in Spanish and English,Paco and Susanna, he has a gents clothes shop ‘ Ramos Camisera’ in La Inea,which is the border town with Gibraltar and she used to be a housekeeper in a Holiday Inn. We enjoyed their company as we took in the sights and sounds of sunny Manilva. I watched the Grand Prix and Vuelta as Brenda went up on the roof terrace to read and sunbathe; as we were having our evening cocktails on the terrace the front door bell which we have on the terrace went, it was Mano and Anna; we had not seen Mano for quite a while and the drinks fridge was stocked with Cruz Campo’s ! We caught up with all the news and gossip before they left, they had already eaten or they would have joined us for supper. In the morning I had made a dish of Boulangere Potatoes which was in the oven, we bought a pack on Spanish Lamb Chops ‘Chuletas de Cordero’ and I pan fried them off and popped them on top of the Potatoes to finish in the oven, Brenda’s vegetables of local Carrots, whole Green crisp Beans and Spinach made it a meal to make the mouth water with the Rioja helping ! The pictures below show the Wine Press starting to take shape-more to follow.

PS; Breaking News - A Englishman has just taken over the lead in the Vuelta ! Chris Froome did a sensational ride in the Time Trial around and into the center of the university town of Salamanca and has just put on the Red jersey,Bradly Wiggins is third overall after not doing as well as expected in TT- they both ride for Team Sky.

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‘ V- DAY ’ is counting down – 4 days to the start !!

Thought for the Day;

When you’re work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

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