SATURDAY 31st/ AUGUST 2019. “ VENDEMIA WINE FESTIVAL “
We had a nice lie in this morning before getting
ourselves ready for the weekend ahead, after freshening up, as Brenda was on
the breakfast rota I had her famous ‘Campo Poached Eggs on Toast’ – she had her’s
‘Scrambled’ on Brown Toast, with mugs of strong tea, as ‘Chispa’ joined us for
her breakfast also!
I then, with the ‘ Second Chef’s’ help prepared
and made my famous “ Beef & Vegetable Stew - Lob Scouse “ – diced Onions,
Shallots, Garlic, Bay Leaves, Carrots, Leeks, Celery, Turnips, Green Beans
& Potatoes, all sweated off, with a dash of ‘Lea & Perrins and Tabasco’
– then a good/strong ‘Beef & Vegetable’ stock is added, meanwhile I fry-off
the diced Stewing Beef after, dusting it in seasoned flour, before adding it to
the pot, to simmer and cook-off under the very able eye of the ‘Second Chef’ - who
also has boiled some more diced potatoes to go in the stew tomorrow to turn it
into ‘Lob-Scouse’!
This morning has started a little grey
& overcast, there is a light breeze so by lunchtime it will clear and reach
a warm & sunny 28 degs+ tomorrow a little warmer, just right for the ‘ Vendemia
Wine Festival ‘ weekend! Next week is looking dry, warm & settled, with a
few patchy clouds at times, hovering on the 26/27 degs mark, overnight only
down to 19/20 degs+ Watch this space.
Yesterday evening (dusk) over in Liverpool,
the ‘Colombian Navy’s’ three-masted barque sail training ship entered the River
Mersey on an official visit, it has 15,000 sq feet of sail and one ‘ Helluva’
flag!
See below.
When we came last night after a very nice ‘
Tapas Fish’ supper, along at ‘ Bar Castillo’ – ‘ Rosada Frito ‘ with Frits and local
Mayonnaise, the diced ‘ Dogfish’ is coated in a light ‘Tempura’ style batter,
then shallow fried in Vegetable Oil, I had arranged a ‘ Surprise ‘ Skype’ video
call with Sandra & Bill over in Everett, Ontario, Canada, earlier in the
day, for Brenda, who was concerned and worried about Sandra, after the fall off
her bicycle last weekend.
She has a ‘Panda’ black eye on the side of
her face, that hit the gravel ground, on the side of her head, knocking her
out, she was not wearing a crash hat, for the short ride in the camping site,
she has cuts and bruises on the side that hit the ground and two fractured ribs
at the top of her chest! Her Doctor had given her a good check up and told her
to rest & relax, taking things very easy for the next week or two. Watch
this space.
“ Countdown 30 Days “
Today we have a full days sport ahead; down
in Cardiff Wales welcome Ireland in a warm-up ‘ World Cup Rugby’ game, over at
Spa in Belgium it’s the ‘Grand Prix’ – meanwhile in the ‘Premiere League’ in
the UK, Manchester City are at home to Brighton, Liverpool travel up the
M6 to play Burnley & Everton are at
home to Wolverhampton Wanderers tomorrow, over here in ‘ La Liga’ Barcelona travel
to Osasuna & Real Madrid go to play Villarreal tomorrow.
Here in Spain, also, later today it’s Stage
8 of the “ Vuelta d’España 19 ‘ over 167 kms from Valls to Igualada, a flat
stage before it reaches Andorra tomorrow!
This morning before breakfast I popped out
and took some pictures of ‘Calle Mar’
showing all the family ‘ Sonbrajos’ being built as well as the main ‘Bars’
getting ready, see above.
This evening we are going to watch the
Religious parade of the Tableau, led the ‘Manilva Brass Band’ with all the
village ladies in their ‘Wine’ costumes, carrying bunches of the local grapes
to be weighed later! See the picture above posted later.
Then it all – ‘kicks-off’ with two bands on
the stages playing into the wee small hours!!
Thoughts for the Day; See above.
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