SUNDAY 31st / JULY 2016.
Just a little lie in this morning as ‘Reina’
was being dropped off for a sleep over this evening and on Monday, she’s with
us as usual everyday to Friday, Daniela’s sister’s wedding is tomorrow. For our
breakfast we had our regular toast & tea with fresh fruit, this morning it
was my favourite, at this time of the year, local, juicy ‘Nectarine’s’ Today we
are taking things very easy just doing nothing, relaxing, keeping cool,
drinking lots of water etc.
Its going to be another hot one today as
the sun moves around by lunchtime, there is a little breeze, so its rather pleasant
at the moment, next week we are in for a very hot start to July, watch this
space.
This evening we are having our supper a
little earlier than normal so as we settle down and watch the ‘ Premiere’ on ‘UK
TV ‘over on ‘ITV’ of the latest James
Bond movie “ Skyfall “ We are having ‘ Grilled Fillet Steaks ‘ cooked on a very
hot griddle plate ‘ Med-Rare’ and then left to ‘rest’ – garnished with Button
Mushrooms & Deep-Fried Onions Rings ( Milk & Flour ) along with finely
sliced Green Beans and some twice-cooked ‘ Frits’ – ‘ Dijon Grain Mustard on
the side.
Last night we went up to Bar Castillo and
settled down to follow the ‘ Noche Enbrujo ‘ after a nice Tapas supper, to
start we had a plate of ‘ Boquerones Fritos’ – Deep Fried ‘ Whitebait’ ( Large ) – a skewer of Gambas, assorted small
tapas including warm Stuffed Mussels and the ‘ House’ Croquettes ‘ made with ‘
Bechamel’ sauce & Ham- finally for Brenda ‘ Berenjenas Con Miel’ – Fried Aubergine
slices in local Honey!
As the sun set over sunny Manilva the
entertainment began on all of the four stages, the main stage, on the Palza de
Vendimia,’ was for the younger generation with a rock concert, in ‘Calle Mar’ on the three other stages we
had a two-girl Pop-Band, some male & female ‘ Copla’ singers, a female Flamenco Dance Group, a very professional
Flamenco Dance & Singing Group, finally our neighbours daughter ‘ Alba’ who
we have watched grow up and sing form the age of 5, she is now 15 and sang, for
the first time, in English, the ‘Adele’ number “ Hello “ - it went down very well and got a great round
of applause from all of the village.
The street was floodlit and covered in
Candles, we even had a nice Black Shawl on our bedroom balcony, down in the ‘Cultural
Centre’ the ‘ Pena Flamenca Association’ had local singers from the
village, Emili & Pepe, accompanied by a excellent guitarist, on the way
home a friend took a picture of us on the ‘ Sign Stand’ – not very good as I forgot
to set the automatic zoom, as you can see in the pictures above, don’t forget
to ‘click-on’ the pictures to go full screen! It all went on until 2-00 am, the
rock concert until 4-00 am!
As I’m typing and posting the Blog and
pictures I’m listening to ‘Pete Black’s Retro Request Show’ on ‘Castle Radio FM
89.2 & Online on the WWW’ - watch this space for the re-launch of the
station and the new studios and hopefully my own show coming to you ‘ live’
from studio 4 in heart of sunny Manilva!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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