A WARM AND SUNNY MANILVA ON THURSDAY;

THURSDAY 9^th/ OCTOBER 2014.

Little princess ‘Reina’ arrived early this morning for the day, she’s back next week on Tuesday & Thursday, tomorrow afternoon ‘Scruffy’ is here for a sleep over in ‘Doggy World Heaven’

The sun was out first thing again this morning and it’s already warm and sunny in Manilva but its looking like we will get a little bit of the wet stuff tomorrow morning when we are out for our usual Friday shopping!

Just as we were finishing our breakfast the ‘Skype’ video alarm went of, it was Tim from over in Old Colwyn, he was calling for a chat and news update, the main bit of news was that by this time next year he and Thea could be living here in Spain! They are planning to move across as Thea’s work commitments sort themselves out, it sound like they are planning to be in the area around Almeria up the coast from Malaga but  still in Andalusia, so we will be able to go and visit them and likewise they can come down to sunny Manilva!!

I’ve posted below a picture of the severe storm with lighning & thunder that hit North Wales yesterday as it was over Old Colwyn, Tim’s house and the Bay – meanwhile we were in a very hot and sunny Marbella – 31degs! One ' Helluva Storm'

We have just been for a short walk with the dog down to the butchers for some more Braising steak to go with last nights leftover sauce for tonight’s supper, it was rather delicious, we are having some of Brenda’s famous Mashed Potatoes and mixed Garden Peas & Baby Carrots ‘Reina’ is asleep under my feet as I’m typing the Blog.See the picture below of tonight's supper!

Meanwhile over in Skelton the ‘Queen’ is on a royal visit to see an exhibition of ‘Grayson Perry Tapestries’- sadly her ‘Consort’is not accompanying her as he has to be in work, it helps to keep her in the style that she is accustomed too! She has left behind her ‘Tranny Gear’ and is wearing for the occasion ‘Doc Marten’ Boots and a ‘Next’ Biker jacket, so I’m informed by the local Royal Correspondent in Skelton!! Enjoy!!

So today we are having a nice at home day taking things easy and doing nothing in particular, as I’ve said before it’s because we can! In fact Brenda has just started scraping the deep freeze!! I’ve just called her to come up to the office to proof-read the Blog, a job she does every day!

Tonight after supper we will watch the ‘European Championship’ qualifying matches on TVE 1 as Slovakia welcome Spain and England welcome San Marino, which I will follow upstairs in the office on my sports ‘IT’ Channel.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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MANILVA AND RONDA

Monday 28th April.

I picked Jane up from the airport in Malaga and came back to Manilva along the coast road,not on the Autovia so I was able to show her all the place’s along the coast on a very warm and sunny day.We then had a bottle of Pink Champagne and Club Sandwiches at our house to welcome her to Manilva.In the afternoon we went up on the roof terrace and had a couple of bottles of White wine including the excellent White Rioja that we were given when we went to the Spanish seven course meal a few weeks ago.Janes drink is white wine as you will see later ! In the evening we went down to Sabinillas to a local restaurant and had Sole Meuniere washed down with the local Vino Blanco.

Tuesday 29th April.

We got up to a beautiful sunny day and had our toast and coffee on the roof terrace before we set off to Ronda for lunch.We went up past Casares to Gaucin and then found the road to Ronda through the mountains which we had not used before and it turned out to be a very good road with spectacular views as you can see from the pictures below when we stopped at a Mirador and then went onto the small and very hot village of Algetocin and had a coffee in the Meson la Ermita before we went into the old town of Ronda past the city walls and parked in a underground car park which keeps the car cool- the hire car that we had delivered on Monday afternoon to the Aparthotel is a little Fiat Panda 4 door estate and is ideal and also it goes! The temperature was 26oc as we went to look at the cliff views and the Bull Ring before going down to the Old Bridge over the gorge.We had a late lunch in the Restaurant Don Miguel which is built into the gorge and is famous for The Roast Leg of Baby Lamb which Jane and I had whilst Brenda had The Brochette of Monkfish and Prawns and a very nice bottle of the local chilled Rose We then crossed the bridge and went into the old town and we found for the first time The Hotel Montelirio which is the sister hotel to The La Menorah restaurant and is also built into the gorge opposite the bridge, we also called into The Bull Fighters Hotel-San Gabriel which has the smallest cinema in the world-five seats only! The drive back down to San Pedro is very exciting as it clings to the rock faces and shoots you around the corners on the way back to the coast.The picture shows Jane and Brenda on the road to Ronda.In the evening we went out for supper to a small Chef- Proprietor run restaurant and we had a very nice meal of Roast Duck Breast on Plumbs and Fillet Steaks on a very crisp Ratatoulie with the house recommended White Rioja which was rather nice ! “ Restaurante Adare “ in Sabinillas is on the list ! Jane has also broken in the guest room and says that the service is Five xxxxx !!