Phil came up with an electric fan heater this morning as we have family
coming tomorrow and the third bedroom does seem a bit cold.
This afternoon we had a chat about what we are going to do next
year. We had planned to go to the USA
with Robert and family. We have friends
who live in Florida and the plan was to fly to Miami, stay with Maggie and
Richard, go up to Disney then Robert and family would fly home and we would go
off and do other things in America.
However, on working out a rough cost Robert decided that it might be
better to leave it until another year.
Richard and I then had to make the decision as to whether we go or
not. Maggie and Richard come over every
year, so we see them anyway, so we finally decided to come back to
Mojacar.
I spent the rest of the day searching through the internet trying to
find somewhere to stay next year but the pickings are small! I wrote to all the agencies, but I don’t hold
out much hope that they have got anything.
I did shortlist about 8 from Airbnb and HomeAway – varying from
apartments to villas
Thursday 20th February
Our visitors were due at 5pm.
They were flying into Alicante, hiring a car then driving down. However, the French air traffic controllers
were on strike and they had a delay of almost 3 hours – a lot of this was
sitting on the plane! Sophie is
Richard’s step daughter from his previous marriage (one of three sisters) and
she was coming with her husband Mark and their sons Leo (10) and Rex (6).
The delayed arrival did give us chance to give the villa a good clean
and for me to catch up on the ironing and also spend a bit more time scouring
the internet for properties for next year.
The family arrived at 8pm. They
were so pleased to finally be here but of course could only see our view in the
dark! I had made a lasagne, so we all
sat down and ate that then the boys went to bed and we sat up talking but not
for that long as Sophie and Mark was exhausted.
Friday 21st February
Everyone was up fairly early as I had anticipated! Sophie and Mark marvelled at the view while
the boys just wanted to get into the pool!
However, they had to wait as we were going out.
We went to Turre market where the boys just wanted everything! Mark said he had €50 and wasn’t going to
spend any more! Eventually I left then
to it and went to join Richard who was at a café. As far as I can remember they bought a mass
of olives and other things in oil (not my scene!), Leo had some trainers and
Rex a Messe (Barcelona) football kit which is bright yellow so we will never
lose him now!
Back home for lunch then the boys were straight into the pool - I
hasten to add that they had brought wet suits with them which was just as well
as the pool was only 18 degrees. They
then went down to the beach
In the evening I made a chicken and prawn paella – it seemed to be a
great success 😃.
No comments:
Post a Comment