Sunday 8th March
Today
was a rest day! It was also a very windy
day. We had a quiet morning then set the
wheels in motion for an early afternoon barbecue. Richard did the cooking, I prepared the salad
and Penny did a fruit salad with strawberries bought on the market on Friday.
Scrummy!
Monday
9th March
Back
up to Bedar today to go to the Miramar to partake of their wonderful lamb, or
rather Jim and I had lamb while Penny and Richard had something with
chips!
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| The higher house is Casa Tina – our villa for 2021 |
Tuesday
10th March
Our
first stop this morning was to go up to Casa Tina again, our home for next
year. I wanted to check on kitchen
equipment and a few other things and to show it to Penny and Jim. Richard and I still love it though it is
going to be a different way of life being so high up – no popping down to the
supermarket for milk!
I
wanted to take Penny and Jim up to Cabrera, so we set off towards Turre and
then up to Cabrera which is situated in the Sierra Cabrera mountain range.
A
few years ago, an Englishman bought a piece of the mountain and built a few
Moorish style houses on it. He then put
them and some building plots up for sale – on the condition that any houses
built there must also be built in the Moorish style and all kept the same brown
colour of the mountain. Some of the houses are extraordinary with Moorish
domes, filigree arches and turrets.
Apparently, most of the inhabitants are English and Germans who live
here during the winter and return home in the summer, which means the community
can be very quiet at that time.
We
stopped and had a picnic with a wonderful view inland. We continued up and stopped to take another
look at the view. When we turned round,
we could see Garrucha and the sea – it really was a wow moment.
We
continued as I knew we would come out, eventually, in Sopalmo. Just when we thought we couldn’t go any
higher we found that we could! Suddenly
the lovely tarmac road gave way to an unmade surface which, in places, was
extremely rough. There were parts of the
road where the drop was almost sheer, but I tried not to look! Muffin got quite upset so was allowed to come
and sit on my knee. We passed through a
small community and thought that the road must improve from there on but no, it
remained the same! Gradually we
descended until we finally came back to civilisation – Sopalmo. I think Richard quite enjoyed the drive
though it was quite stressful, and he did wish we had had better tyres on the
car!
When
we got home, Richard took Muffin for a walk on the beach and to take the poor
car for a wash – I have never seen so much dust on the back of our car!
In
the evening we went to Al Punto for a last supper. The restaurant is a Brazilian Rodízio - an
all-you-can-eat style of restaurant. The meat is served right off the cooking
spit and sliced at the table. It was accompanied by chips, fried bananas, black
beans and rice. We were given a card -
green, on one side, to indicate to the server to bring more meat and red on the
other side, to indicate that we were stuffed sufficiently full!
Jim's steak
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