First Saturday

Today was a day of buying groceries and meat to see us through afew days.  Having been here before (in 2010 we hired the villa just down the road) we knew which little supermarket we wanted to use and the butchers next door.   The supermarket is small but well patronised so it was quite a squash to get in and select what we wanted.

The woman at the till, although not speaking English, was able to make fun of her customers who were gabbling and shouting to each other.   With the odd word and much body language we  were able to include the correct amounts of cheese and salami to our basket.   It was good fun.   I was pleased that, having done a lot of exercise this year in a local gym I could carry the large bags of goods up the street to where the car was parked.

Next we called in at the butchers where by pointing and displaying the correct number of fingers we bought two very large chicken breasts, 24 sausages, 8 chicken drumsticks, 4 pork loin chops and a chorizo for 18 euros.  When we had put our purchases in the car and were ready to leave for El Romo another car had pulled up close behind.   A timely toot on the horn got us out of that problem!

Back home we went through 7 kilometers of stunning views as we glanced across the other valley.   To stand on the roof terrace is to get a wonderful 360 degrees view stretching for miles.  The top photo is of the mountain top village of Comares which we want to visit whilst here.   Last year we never went and regretted this afterwards.

You can see from an initial photo of the pool that it is sizeable.   Whilst the bottom slopes it is very little so the shallow end is not really shallow at all.   But it has Roman steps and this gets people into the water by increments!   We spent the rest of the day in and out of the pool followed by a twenty minutes spa treatment in the hot tub.   Sitting in the hot tub with jets of water coming from every angle and looking out over the valley at sunset is a memorable experience.

Afterwards I made chicken breasts with garlic and pimenton and a salad for dinner.   This was followed by creme caramel.   All was washed down with a sparkling wine.   Following the meal which we ate outside one of the house cats jumped on my knee for a little smoothing.   Its name is Yodo.   This cat was later involved in a fight with a visiting cat who was obviously very unwelcome.

If any typos or spelling mistakes appear it is because I am lazy and use spellcheck which, because I am posting from Spain, does not work for me as it thinks I should be writing in Spanish!