A GREY, OVERCAST & WINDY SUNNY MANILVA ON SUNDAY.

SUNDAY 14^th / OCTOBER 2018    “  SANDRA & BILL ARRIVE “

We had a little lie in this morning after a not very good night sleep, due to being rather excited by the arrival at lunchtime, of the folks from Everett, Ontario, Canada!  They have checked into their flight at Barcelona Airport after a ‘ Fantastic’ breakfast at the Hotel. It’s showing ‘Scheduled/On-Time’- to arrive at Malaga, weather permitting, where they will collect the Hire Car and come down to sunny Manilva!

PS; They have landed ! 

At the moment “ Hurricane Leslie “ which is the first ever hurricane to hit Continental Europe, due to a severe change in wind direction, has hit Northern Portugal, with the tail-end crossing Spain, before heading to the UK!  It’s gone a lot cooler, down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol ‘ as the wind gets up, hovering at around 21/22 degs,  the coolest we have been in over 4 months! We have a dark & overcast sky, at the moment, with the threat of ‘ Wet-Stuff’ in the air, by lunchtime, as the folks are due to arrive, it could be raining, sorry!

We are going to take things one day at the time, as we watch the weather forecasts, over next week and the coming week, the overall temperature’s are staying in the low to mid 20s, as we are due out & about down here on the ‘ Costa Del Sol’ and the ‘Cadiz’ Region. Watch this space.

More updates to follow !! 

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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ESTEPONA/MANILVA START TO THE WEEKEND.

SATURDAY 26TH FEBRUARY 2011.

Well we have just had one “ Helluva ” Saturday ! We had arranged to go and see Vidal and Gissy over in Estepona in their new apartment; it is right by the Bay of Estepona on the seafront looking across to Estepona,Estepona Fishing Harbour,Sabinillas and Duquesa Marina with Manilva up on the hillside ! Across to Africa and Gibraltar on a clear day are on the horizon in the sea mist – honest ! See the pictures below; We stopped off in Estepona on the way as we needed some Casis,which we use in Cava all the time; next door to the wine shop there is a very good “ Halal ” butchers with a large selection of meats all on offer, for example two Chickens for 5 euros ! and Legs of Lamb which were a very good price also.

At the same time as catching up with all their news Gissy cut my hair, she took an inch off but it did not hurt ! Then Brenda had the full works,cut,colour and style as we sat on their very large balcony in the very warm sunshine,27degs and higher. As we came to set off home and went to the car,Lilli’s which we have had the use of this week, the steering lock would not diss-engage,even with Vidal’s help and knowledge we had no luck and so we had to abandon the car outside the Apartment block and get a Taxi home as Vidal was on his way to an gig over in Fuengirola.

We had invited Brian around for supper as he has now finished work and moved into the Aparthotel until they set off to Finland; before we left for Estepona I had called back in to our butchers in the village for another slice of steak, it turned out that he was watching the football and then the rugby around at Andy’s so we asked Andy to join us as well ! Everton won and England played well and beat the French ! So when they arrived they were in fine form, we had the Steaks pan fried rare in Garlic butter with Grilled Tomato, Sauté Onions and Button Mushrooms and of course proper chips ! I also as a surprise fried eggs and topped the steaks with them ! We all cleared our plates and a satisfied hum went around the room ! So we ended with another fine day down here in sunny Manilva.


Thought for the Day;


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.


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