A VERY, VERY HOT & SUNNY MANILVA ON FRIDAY AT THE START OF THE WEEKEND;

FRIDAY 29^th / JULY 2016.

I was up early this morning and shot out on my travels, my first port of call was down at the surgery, I gave the receptionist two documents to change our Doctor, Mano called in yesterday and helped us fill them in, the Doctor that has been seeing us is very good and extremely conscientious, she’s Romanian and speaks good English, she has sorted out two problems with Brenda so we decided to stay with her, at her suggestion!

‘Reina’ is now not with us today as she’s a little off colour, due to the heat, she’s back with us on Sunday for a two day sleep-over and then for the rest of next week, as normal, this weekend is Daniela’s sister's wedding, over here, so its all go for the family as they settle into the  ‘Wedding Reception Holiday Village Venue ‘ up in the hills behind Manilva.

I then carried on down to Sabinillas for our weekly shopping, I stopped at the ‘ English Bookshop ‘ for the local newspapers and birthday cards, the main shop was in ‘ Mercadona ‘ – I beat the crowds and was in and out very quickly, I then shot along to the local market for the fresh flowers and some more wall plants, they don’t last very long at this time of the year. I then stopped at ‘ Super Sol ‘ for the ‘English’ essentials, I then shot back up the hill through the green vine fields, see the picture below.

Today is already very hot and sunny, by lunchtime it will be even hotter, there is a little breeze but its not making any difference, we are in for a long hot weekend and next week its going to get even warmer, well it’s the 1^st August on Monday! Watch this space. See the picture below of the Bay of Llandudno this morning.

For our supper this evening we are having ‘Grilled Salmon Fillets’ a la ‘Meuniere’ with Garden Peas & Parsley New Potatoes, tomorrow night we are out again ( the 4^th time this week!) - we are going up to ‘Bar Castillo’ for a ‘ Tapas’ supper and will then stay and watch the ‘ Noche Embrujo’ from the comfort of our seats, in the shade, this morning the Council workmen have been putting up all the stages, lighting, sound systems etc. 

On Sunday we are having our ‘ Steak Night’ – Grilled Fillet Steaks’ with all the trimmings and will then settle down to watch the James Bond movie ‘ Skyfall’ later.

Last night after supper at ‘Bar Castillo’ we went down to the Cultural Centre ‘ Casa del Torres’ to listen and watch the ‘ String Quartet’ – it turned out to be a ‘Woodwind Quintet’ with Flute, two Clarinets, an Oboe and a lady French Horn ( Brass ) player, it was not ‘ heavy classical’ and they played Tango’s, Polka Dots, Spanish, Song Tunes etc, the Oboe player was fantastic and did a long solo number, the lady horn player was also ‘ hot’ and the rest of the Quintet were very good with well arranged music, it was very pleasant sat in the courtyard on a balmy evening, very relaxing and therapeutic!

Thoughts for the Day, See above.

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