A VERY BREEZY BUT STILL VERY HOT SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND;

FRIDAY 15^th / JULY 2016.

I was up very early this morning as ‘ Reina’ was being dropped off by Daniela, she is very busy before flying off to England; ‘Reina’ is with us until Monday evening, then she’s back next Tuesday for the week. She is no problem, she is very quiet, most of the time, she has the loudest bark of all of the dogs, she sleeps a lot of the time and goes to bed early, like all good girls!

I then got myself ready and shot of on my travels down to Sabinillas for the weekly shopping, its staring to get busy, more cars on the road, nowhere to park, all the shops busy and  ‘ Mercadona ‘ with all the tills open from first thing, I posted a birthday card in the ‘English Bookshop’ and picked up the local newspapers, the main shop was then done before going along to the local market, at the end of the promenade, for fresh flowers & wall plants, I popped into ‘ Super Sol ‘ for some English essentials before coming back up the hill through the green vine fields to the village and our house, after unpacking I shot along to the local Bank in ‘Calle Mar’ to pay the electricity bill.

Over night a stiff breeze has come along but its still very hot & sunny, making  it a bit more bearable, over the weekend its getting hotter and next week we are in for very hot spell, usual for this time of the year. See below the sign on the railway station on the Isle of Anglesey, North Wales, that is the next to longest name ( 58 ) in the World, the longest one is on the North Island of New Zealand ( 85 )

TAUMATAWHAKAJANGIHANGAKOAUTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU  !! 

This afternoon I'm going across to the Bus Station above Marbella to collect our Swedish friend Lillimor, who is flying in from Gothenburg, she’s her for the next 3/4 months, she  has a small house in a complex below the village on the side of the valley.

When I get back I will be watching ‘ Stage 13 ‘ of the “ Tour De France’ which today is a hilly ‘Time Trial’ over 37 kms from Bourg-Saint-Andeol to La cavern Du Pont –D’Arc – See the route map below.

Yesterdays stage will be the most talked about stage in the history of the race as Chris Froome was forced to run up Mont Ventoux , without a bike, following a crash with a motorbike, after a member of the crown forced it to brake sharply, His bike was damaged by another motorbike rider crashing into his bike at the same time, he eventually got one near the finish as he must finish on a bike/or with one! He had left all the other contenders behind and was well ahead of them all on time, he was with two other riders, one of them managed to carry on. In the end Froome was given the same time as the rider who escaped and so he retained the Yellow Jersey and increased his lead over the other riders – RESULT!!

Tonight for our supper we are having ‘ Pan-Seared Fillets of Hake a la Meuniere ‘ with Garden Peas and Parsley new Potatoes, on Saturday its going to be ‘ Grilled Entrecote Steak ‘ – sliced ‘French’ style and then on Sunday possibly  ‘Escalopes of Turkey Breast’

Last night after our Tapas supper up at  ‘ Bar Castillo ‘  we went down to the Cultural Centre ‘ Casa Del Torres ‘ to watch the ‘ Tango Concert ‘ it turns out that its next week! The concert this week was a professional ‘ Copla’ singer ‘ Mari Carmen Morino ‘ from Sevilla, with a very good five piece backing band, she sings ‘ Flamenco, Fandango & Musical songs and the very full local audience was enthralled, lots of shouting and clapping!  See the picture above.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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