Monday
28th January
I spent
the morning catching up with the blog and managing to post it on time – well in
my eyes anyway. I then spent a great
deal of time looking for things to do with our visitors while they are here. Some of things we have done before, and
others are new but I’m looking forward to doing them all – oh and trying all
the restaurants on the list too!
Our poor
car was looking so dirty – Richard always keeps it very clean at home and I was
surprised that he had left it so long.
In Mojacar (I don’t know if it’s the same all over Spain) you are not
allowed to wash a car in the road, so every petrol station has a bay of jet
washing bays and usually one “tunnel” one.
Richard reckons the jet washer is much more powerful that the ones in
the UK and the car was clean in no time.
We have
visitors for lunch tomorrow, so it was a quick visit to the supermarket before
returning home for a cup of tea. Does
anyone else’s dog like to rest their chins on things? Muffin is quite daft!
Tuesday
29th January
Another
day in paradise!! I can’t believe that
today marks three weeks in Mojacar – where on earth has the time gone!
Having
done the shopping yesterday I realised that I still needed mushrooms and kidney
beans – a chill without kidney beans!!!
While I was out, I popped in to Beaches as they had said that I could
have my new iPad delivered there. It was
definitely down as a Monday delivery but guess what? It hadn’t been delivered! I checked Amazon tracking and it left Madrid
last night but it is being delivered by the Spanish postal service, Correos,
who are renowned for being slow – I just hope it arrives before we go
home!
Bit short
of photos for today!
We had a
lovely afternoon with Carol and David who live in the other villa in our
“complex” (do two villas and a pool count as a complex?) I made a chill which I served with rather
overcooked rice ☹ I had
read that Spanish rice takes longer to cook than other rice – this was
obviously not Spanish rice!
It was
very interesting listening to Carol and David.
They have been coming to Mojacar for 14 years and had their own
apartment at one stage however they felt that the cost of living (not counting
food) was getting very expensive. Also,
taxes were escalating with taxes on taxes!
So, they sold up and now rent for the winter months. There was still part of me that wanted to buy
over here but their comments have changed my mind completely.
Wednesday
30th January
We had
planned a quiet day before Penny and Jim were due to arrive tomorrow. I needed to renew our gas and electricity and
managed to get a great deal with our current provider (Scottish and Southern)
which is going to cost us about £20 less a month! I also needed to renew our BT contract.
If you
are on the ball you may have noticed my mention of Penny and Jim’s arrival is
in the past tense ☹ Just
after lunch I got a message from Penny saying that she couldn’t find their
passports. My first reaction was to
think, silly woman look a bit harder!
However, as the afternoon wore on it was obvious that she really
couldn’t find them. Penny inherited a
big old desk, I reckon about 40 years ago, and the passports have lived in one
of the drawers ever since but when she went to look “the cupboard was
bare”! I felt so useless and could do
nothing except come up with some ideas of places to look – which had already
been searched. In the end they had to
make the sad decision not to come. The
hotel at Exeter Airport had to cancelled and the flight, along with the hire
car, postponed. Penny was lucky that she
found a very helpful lady at the BA Executive Club who had had a similar
problem and has agreed to postpone the flight.
The care hire company have also postponed the car but there may be a
change in the cost.
So that
was my afternoon – sat at the laptop waiting for the next instalment. However, I did go down to Beaches and my new
iPad was there, so I brought it home and put it on to charge. I was so disappointed but, hopefully, they
will get out in a few days’ time.
Thursday
31st January
It was
rather a dull morning and I was so fed up that I felt there was little point in
getting up. We brought a TV with us and
with the help of our IPTV box we can watch UK TV in bed as we do at home. The only trouble is that I keep thinking that
Breakfast Time finishes at 9.15am but that isn’t the case as over here it is
10.15am! Today I got caught up in Homes
under the Hammer and then Wanted Down Under and before I knew where I was it
was midday ☹
To cheer
me up Richard took me out for lunch. One
of our favourite places, when we were here two years ago, was La Cabaña and we
haven’t been this year so off we toddled.
The Menu del Dìa is €14.95 for three courses, there are cheaper, but the
food was excellent and the service first-rate.
When we
got home, I spent the afternoon setting up my new iPad. Robert had told me what to do and that worked
really well but I had to put in the password for everything that needed one and
that seemed to take forever! I have two
old email addresses which some people still use and trying to get those was a
nightmare. I’m not sure how it happened
but I managed to lose them from my laptop and I just could not get them to
re-install. A long call to BT ensued but
the chap couldn’t do it and said that he would escalate it, and someone would
ring me at 3pm tomorrow. At least the
iPad is working 😊
Not a
very good array of photos today – I must try harder!
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