T is for Travel

 Good morning Ladies, we’ve had a busy week, it didn’t start off that way. 

We needed a new Padron from the Ayuntamiento, this document is proof you own a property and live here, unfortunately if you need it as proof it has to be less than three months old! So off we went armed with passports, utility bills, residencia papers, fortunately we were second in line, doesn’t take long once you are there seeing as we are only renewing it. After taking all the documents we could think of he only looked at one of our passports!!!

 I need to renew my Medical card, for some reason last time it was renewed I didn’t get the full four years. Now I need an appointment to see the man who does the paperwork, then it's all sent  off,  I’m guessing to Madrid!

We read online that a replica boat had been docked in the harbour so we decided to take a closer look while we were on our walk, it’s quite impressive.

 It’s a replica of the Noa Victoria, it was the first ship  to circumnavigate the world between 1519 -1522, This voyage was overseen by Fernao de Magalhaes, known as Magellan in English. and took three years and covered 45,000 miles.

The Vessel is a Carrack, 60-70 feet long and built of Oak and Pine,  it housed 45 crew and formed part of a five ship expedition to map a trade route for Spain. It was financed by Carlos V and 265 men began the journey but only the Victoria returned with just 18 men.

Megellan was killed in the battle of Mactan and Barbosa took control only to be poisoned by the Rajah of Humabon in the (Cebu) Philippines after being invited to a banquet in honour of the Spanish King. The remaining 18 crew were a mix of nationalities and survivors from the five ships that started the expedition, Most of the crew died from malnutrition. 

Between 2004 - 2006 she completed her own round the world trip stopping in 17 countries .

They were very brave to sail around the world as it's not the biggest boat I've ever seen!

One of our meals last week, homemade meatballs with sauce made with tomatoes, onions, red peppers and Garlic.

They were quite big so we had two each with cheese sprinkled on the top, the rest we froze for another meal.

My drink for this week was a quick coffee after we had been to get our Padron, a different coffee from usual. I quite like the pattern on the top.

This is a slice of the Lemon Curd cheesecake I made a few weeks ago, I had to cut a slice for the photo as it was too deep so parts of the lemon curd topping  slid sideways, not a pretty sight but it tasted ok.

It was just Greek yoghurt, cream cheese, icing sugar mixed together with a biscuit base, I used my homemade lemon curd on the top and a swirl inside.

I made this card last week, for a challenge on SCS, as usual it started off a quite a simple card but ended up taking me days to finish, you know when you start something and wish you really hadn't! 

Apart from all that we've been gardening, taking out a massive Bird of Paradise plant, took three days and ten huge bin bags to get rid of it all. we are both suffering from sore backs and shoulders from digging etc, I will post a picture of the finished garden next week, until then, take care and stay safe Ladies.

Jan x