Thank you so much for all who came for a visit and lovely comments.
This last week we haven’t been doing so much work around the villa, neither of us felt like doing much although this morning, after our walk, I've been doing a little grouting in the shower room, I've nipped up here while it's drying before going back to clean it up.
Friday and Saturday last week we decided to give the seafront a miss as the car parks were closed due to a Triathlon, hard to have a walk with all that going on so we went to one of the other beaches just down the coast. It’s a quiet little place and we usually go there in the summer months for our walk as it doesn’t get so manic when the holidaymakers arrive.
We went to a favourite restaurant of ours called Las Redes, it’s right on the beach so it has lovely views, as you can see.
We started with a mixed salad, that's always part of a Menu Del Dia, obviously we had started before I remembered to take the photo, also the drink for this week is Cerveza Sin Alcohol, for the first course I had a cold Tomatoe soup, apparently it was a garlic version, very nice, Steve had chicken wings, forgot to take a photo!!
The second course I had chicken in bread crumbs and Steve had Anchovies, too picky for me, especially with the heads still on but he said they were delicious.
My Postre was flan, Steve had rice pudding but the Spanish serve it cold, he asked the waiter if he could warm it up which he did, he said it was nice but very sweet with a lot of cinnamon in it.
We had our coffee at this restaurant at the other end of the beach, La Oasis, we sometimes have Tapas here in summer if we don't fancy a large meal in the heat.
They have lovely outside spaces behind the white wall and a massive outdoor dining area too.
I still have my scrapbook pages open to do Halloween from last year and it's also my Birthday so I'm hoping to do a double page, I haven't been in the mood yet so it's still sat there on my desk.
I've also made a card for a challenge to double emboss, first with a embossing folder and then to wipe embossing ink over the raised area and use embossing powder, I decided to use enamel ink instead which didn't work as well so after adding gilding wax to make up for the lack of embossing ink sticking, I went over it with a wet wipe to get some off as I over did it, I ended up with this piece, I'm quite pleased with it in the end!!
Well I'd better end there and go back to finish cleaning the shower room, hope you all have a great week.
Jan x
Good Morning, afternoon or evening depending where you are in the world.
I’ve had a very busy few days since the last T day, we decided after having problems with our car that we would look for another one as we drive usually twice a year from Spain to England so need reliability, we saw a car we liked and was told two weeks, that was a shock, we were expecting six weeks, anyway to cut a LONG story short, from ordering it on Monday morning by 7pm Wednesday we were driving home in our new car! Talk about frantic, organising new insurance documents, money transfers, then an hours instruction on how to use all the gadgets, our old car being twenty years old only had a cassette player and no mod cons, now our iPhone rings on screen, etc,etc, our brains were frazzled by the time we arrived home, we are quite computer savvy but having it all in a car is quite another thing, also having no key,!!
Thank goodness for YouTube and the manual, I had my first drive yesterday, today I drove to the beach for our walk, it's lovely to drive but having six gears was a challenge!
Of course within ten minutes of getting home a photo had been sent out to our family showing their Dad with his new toy, he told them he wasn't worried about spending the money as it was only their inheritance, DIL thought that was very amusing.
We had lunch our with our friends last week, same restaurant and no photos, too busy chatting!! In the course of the conversation our friends were saying they had new neighbours and whilst chatting to them started to tell them about a mosaic they were doing, their neighbour said he knew someone who had made a massive mosaic years ago, they then realised that they were both talking about the same Jan, me !
This is my mosaic, just over six feet high and about 30 feet long, it took ten months to complete.
Before we moved to Spain on TV a gardener made a small one as a focal point, when we moved in I decided to have a go! Ten months later! Yes it took that long, Steve smashed the tiles, I roughly drew the palm trees and mountains and then painstakingly stuck the tiny pieces on, we used to go around at night into gardens of unoccupied villas, the workers would just throw the spare tiles away so we collected them for the sky and the dark ones for the sea.
My drink this week was going to be a drink in the outer part of the pineapple with juice and fizzy water mixed together, our son gave us this gadget that cuts pineapples up, it’s amazing how easy it is, we had fresh pineapple and Greek yoghurt and honey for afters, unfortunately we cut too deep and made a hole in the bottom, lesson learnt for next time.
My drink today was Elderflower Cordial with fizzy water, too warm for tea, very refreshing, I buy ice now as they last much longer in Summer, the ones you made yourself are too small and sometimes have melted away before you get outside!
Thanks to all my visitors last week and kind comments, I hope you all have a great week and are enjoying some good weather.
Jan x
