T is for still Too Hot

 I just have to say that the comments a few of you made about photo I took in the restaurant with a straw hat on the chair made me smile as it was quite accidental, that is my husband’s hat and he always hangs it there, it did make think that I should think before I take photos, something my husband is always telling me.

This photo was taken when our eldest son was over, also my ticket to the T Party.

it’s a lovely place to have a drink as it’s on the beach side of the marina, jutting out over the sea, we’d never taken them there before so they enjoyed the surprise.

My husband took this as he was facing the sea view.

The same view but you can see at 7pm the beach was still full, you can also see how shallow the water is.

We also had a visit to the ice cream parlour, all the flavours and our Grandson chooses the blue bubblegum flavour! His favourite from being a tiny Tot, tastes and smells awful!

Far too many to choose from and I always end up with mint choc chip!

We are trying to get things done ready for our trip, yesterday my DH had his five weekly blood tests, he takes blood thinners, wouldn't you know his reading was too low so another visit in two weeks, really didn't need a bad reading when we are going away. His E meds certificate also runs out while we are away and we need it to collect the meds for our trip, luckily we have a new young man on the reception at the doctors who took the details and asked the doctor to update it, which she did so thats one job ticked off the list

The weather is still hot, we keep reading that will be getting cooler and I must admit last night was quite pleasant and this morning was a lovely temperature for our short walk,  we leave around 8am, sometimes there’s a small breeze, doesn’t last long though, by the time we do the shopping and walk home it’s already getting hot so we're pleased to get home.

Short and sweet as they say, not much going on with the heat apart from swimming and reading so I'll say bye for now, hope you are all keeping well!

Jan x

T is for

 Happy T Day once again, thank you for your visits last week and kind comments, they are much appreciated.

Still chilling in the shade,  funny in the summer we look forward to cooler weather and in the winter we look forward to Spring, when I was complaining last night about the heat my DH said he will remind me of that when I complain about having to clean the log fire every morning!

I’ve been reading a couple of books my DIL bought me for Christmas, one I really enjoyed, one of those books you can't put down, The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, made me cry at the end , the second one The Red Lotus I’m struggling with, it’s not my kind of book but it is so heavy going I’m still debating if I should abandon it, something I don’t like to do.

Another meal we had at a Restaurant with our family, Restaurante Piccolo, very near to home, I only took photos of the starters, it was so busy that we had quite a wait even for the starters, so long that our GS had eaten most of the bread basket by the time his food arrived!

They offer a  three course Menu including a drink for €20! They always have different dishes on the menu and always plenty to choose from.

 Our son and DH had the Chilli Prawns,I’ve had this starter before and they are delicious,

My starter, called Brie surprise,it was so tasty, Brie wrapped in filo pastry,with honey and walnuts

I made this card for our sons Birthday, I’ve had these Embossing Folders for years and never used them but I had the idea to use the King and Jack as our son jokingly calls himself King Ding A Ling and our GSs name is Jack, he was really pleased when I gave it to him, always gets harder coming up with ideas for their cards after all these years.

I took this photo on the Marina a couple of weeks ago, everyone feeds the fish and a few weeks ago when our family were over there were only massive fish in there, now they are all the tiny fish.

My ticket to the T Party for this week, this is Mariano’s Restaurante, it’s just across the footbridge from our villa , we have our breakfast here quite often, always tostada con Tomate, I'm using the bottles of drinks on the bar as my drink for this week, I hope that's allowed!!

Have a lovely week and hope you are enjoying some cooler weather, apparently it's going to be 100F today and it's humid already!!

Jan x

T is for Time to Chill

 Happy T Day Ladies, I've been AWOL for a few weeks as we had our family over from England and then we've been slowly getting the villa back to normal, takes some time in the heat as we only do one job per day, we were getting up at 7am to clean before the sun came out!!

We had a lovely visit and our 7 year old Grandson kept us on our toes, he decided we all had to play volley ball in the pool, he of course made the rules up as we went along, always in his favour of course!! it was fun but tiring, luckily with the heat he was only allowed in the pool for 15 minutes at a time during the day, half an hour or so  in the shade before going back in, in between he tried again to teach me Roblox, at least he said I'm much better than his Baba, who apparently can't go in a straight line LOL

This is the other Marina, much smaller but it’s where the Restaurante Eduardo's is, the beach looks empty but it was really busy further along.

The restaurant where we took our son to for his Birthday, 51!!!! They had never been there before so it was a lovely surprise although we had a ten minute walk as it's so busy we couldn't find anywhere to park.

Our starter was a salad, it had feta cheese, walnuts, pine nuts etc, it was delicious, we shared it with our Grandson who loves salads, we’d already started before I remembered to take a photo

Our son had Carpaccio, looked lovely but I don't like raw meat. 

Our GS had Carbanara, I forgot to take any more photos unfortunately, our Son, DIL and DH had pasta dishes, I had chicken Escalope I think it was called.

 I always think of it as Schnitzel, I loved them when we lived in Germany, especially with Zigeuner Sauce, I think translates as Gypsy Sauce.

This is my ticket to the T party, we’ve had so many Strawberries, I’ve made Jam and we’ve had smoothies but I have bags of them frozen so I decided to make Strawberry Gin, this is my first batch , I’ve tried a taster and it’s lovely with tonic, I will be taking some to England for our son and DIL to try, it also looks quite nice too.

I hope to join you all at some point , it’s still baking hot but not quite so humidbut we are chilling out in the garden in the shade and taking the occassional dip in the pool, we are keeping away from the seafront as it’s packed with holidaymakers! How Dare they, LOL

Take Care Dear Friends.

Jan x