MANILVA OVER THE CORPUS CHRISTI WEEKEND.

SATURDAY/SUNDAY 9th/10th JUNE 2012.

We are now into our ‘Summer ’ regime as it getting hotter by the day so we have changed our shower times, have the fans on more and are wearing fewer clothes ! The menu is also changing to lighter dishes – honest ! We will be going out for a walk later in the evening and during the day we are keeping them shorter and in the shade, Brenda can only stay out on the roof terrace for a short time and then goes under the sun umbrella. At lunchtime we went up to Bar Rojas for a cool drink under the Sonbrajo as there was a light cool breeze coming down from the mountains behind the village. The medieval Market is on all day and the wandering bands keep on playing and at certain times let off very loud fire-crackers. In the football in Poland/Ukraine Germany beat Portugal and in a surprise Denmark beat Holland – both 1-0 ! After supper of Steak and Chips we settled down to watch a film on TVE1 – “ Red ” – it stands for ‘ Retired Extremely Dangerous ’and was for a change only made in 2010 ! It stars Bruce Willis and wait for it – Helen Mirren.John Malkovich,Morgan Freeman,Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss ! It is described as an action/comedy – watch it and see !!

Today after a little lie in we got tonight’s dinner on the go; Roast Shoulder of Lamb studded with Garlic and Rosemary and finished in the oven on top of Boulangere Potatoes and Brenda’s vegetables, Cabbage with Alselgas,Glazed Carrot and Turnips and Garden Peas. We then freshened ourselves up and went up to Bar Rojas for a Paella Lunch and afterwards we watched the tennis from Paris, yesterday Sharapova won her first French Open and today its Nadel v Djokovic; Nadel is two sets to one up at the moment-play suspended due to rain. Bradley Wiggins has just retained his crown in the mountainous week long 7 stage ‘ Criterium du Dauphine ’ bring on the Tour de France whish starts on the 30th June ! Tonight its Spain v Italy – watch this space- Oh dear 1-1 and Ireland lost to Croatia 3-1. The good news is that Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix ! This morning we heard some action up in Calle Mar – it turned out that it was the ‘ Corpus Christi ’ celebration when the children parade through the street dressed in their White Communion costumes and different Tableau’s are made by the villagers in the street as they throw flower- petals on the route. It is a very big religious festival in Spain and the most famous takes place in La Orotava on Tenerife. The pictures above show are small procession in Calle Mar which I just managed to capture !

PS; Nadel duly won when play resumed on Monday morning - his 7th French Open Win !


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