SUNNY WARM AND BREEZY MANILVA ON TUESDAY;

TUESDAY 5^th/ NOVEMBER 2013.

We had a little lie in this morning and got up to another glorious day; its warm and sunny with clear blue skies and the forecast for the rest of the week and over the weekend is more of the same, there is a little ‘Lavante’ breeze which makes it very pleasant and the temperature is 28degs today and then settling down to 23/24 by the weekend!

After our tea and toast we went for a nice walk around the village with the dog, as you can see above its all happening in sunny Manilva today! We went along Calle Mar to our local bank and they have started to knock down the old Town Hall, we had a hint last week that something was going to happen, they are going to make a new small ‘Plaza’ in front of the fountain which is also next to our local fish market.

Then we went down Calle Inglesia to the butchers for our Pork Chops and fillets of Breast of Chicken, just below past the Pensioners Club they are also demolishing a derelict house which backs onto another one in Calle Muro Aguilar to form a new passage way down to the cemetery! We gathered from the foreman that they are saving the large tree which you can see in the pictures above! The council with the the Mayor Antonia came along on an inspection visit.

We came back through the new ‘Plaza de la Vendimia’ so as I could call into the local IT shop for some ink for the printer, they have changed the shop around and now its also selling ladies fashions and handbags, Brenda was in like a flash and ended up buying a very nice new shoulder/hand bag! It’s either an early Xmas present or an anniversary one!!

This morning one of our pensions came in to our bank over in Estepona, sadly its down as the Euro has dropped again, another one is due in next week so we will have to wait and see; over the month we will be down overall and it also means that since we came here we have lost nearly 35% of our pensions due to the Euro!!

Over in England today history could be made when AP McCoy the 18 times Champion Jockey seeks two wins at Exeter to reach the milestone of 4,000 jump racing victories! His first British success was at Exeter back in 1994. Watch this space.No luck today so its Chepstow tomorrow.

Tonight for supper we are having a Chicken & Turkey Curry for supper, the Crown of Turkey which we had on Sunday also gave us our cold Turkey supper last night, a Turkey salad today for lunch and two meals for Chispa! The butcher this morning had some more of them on display, they are very good value and un-usually for Spanish Turkeys have large Breasts!! I called back into the butchers and just managed to get the last one,he had sold nine more since I had been in earlier this morning! 

Later we will watch the football as it’s the ‘UEFA Champions League’ match on TVE1 between Juventus and Real Madrid, also tonight Manchester Utd are over here at Real Sociedad,who are playing very well at the moment; meanwhile in England Manchester City welcome CSKA Moscow.City won 5-2 with a Negrado hat-trick, 2-2 at Juventus and 0-0 at Real Sociedad with a missed penalty by Van Persie!

PS; I've just posted some pictures from the 'Ffestinog & Welsh Highland Railways"  The two classic narrow gauge railways in North Wales; the first picture is of 'Palmerston' crossing the 'Pen-Cob'outside Porthmadoc was taken yesterday evening! The two trains pulling together are 'Blanche & Linda' !! The top two pictures show the Welsh Highland Railway which operates out of Caernarfon.

The 'Ffestiniog  Railway' goes from Porthmadoc to Blaenau Ffestiniog over 13 miles; The 'Welsh Highland Raiway' goes from Caernarfon to Porthmadoc over 25 miles passing through Beddgelert and the famous 'Aberglaslyn Pass'

Thought for the Day; See above.

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