España

We had a brilliant evening down at the local bar. Having watched the semi-final at home we decided that it would be great to enjoy the final along with the Spanish.

You wouldn´t believe the noise and my ears are still ringing. Drums and hooters along with clapping and shouting. I must admit that my throat is sore from screaming ´España´. The celebrations are continuing out in the streets.

Spanish, English and three or four Germans in one small bar and the atmosphere was brilliant we all shared the champagne at the end.

Well done Spain!

The Housework Bit

It really isn´t my thing and I admit to struggling a bit. I just don´t seem to have the knack like other women. Brian says that the interest isn´t there and he could be right as I´d much rather sit at a desk and push paper.

Shopping is another chore. You can´t just go to one shop for all your stuff here so you trail around getting this and that. What I´d give for Tesco.com!!

Anyway, I was up at nine this morning, did a few tidy up things, took Clio out and then went to the shops. Home again and time for the cooking bit. I´d decided on this cross between potato pie and cottage pie. Nice and easy as it all got shoved in a dish and put in the oven. Phew!

Sweeping and mopping until four when it was time to meet Brian after he finished work. A nice way to spend a Friday evening............not.

He sat and read the paper for an hour, came home, ate his tea and fell asleep in the chair. At exactly ten thirty he awoke and went to bed! Hardly a word for the ´little woman´. My heart goes out to housewives, past and present as it´s a thankless task.

Granadilla

Sue and I haven´t had a day out for ages and so we decided to go for it today. The plan was to catch a bus to Las Americas Bus Station and then jump on the first bus which turned up.

The next one which was due in was to El Medano but as that one didn´t turn up we took the second option, Granadilla. We had absolutely no idea where we were going but it was fun speculating. Would we know where to get off? Well, after going higher and further away from the coast we eventually ended up in a small bus station. There only seemed to be one main street with a couple of shops, a couple of bars and nowhere for lunch. Quite a lot of through traffic but we couldn´t work out where they were all coming from or going to.

After we had ´done´ both of the shops and had a beer we headed back to Las Americas for an all day breakfast and a tour around the Centro Commercial...............not that I could find anything I liked!

We are now armed with a bus timetable and a map so our next outing should be more structured. We probably won´t enjoy it so much though!

Wow!!

We went down to our local this afternoon and the News of the World was being passed from one to the other. It isn´t often that someone you know is front page news.

I´m naming no-one but he does look better in the flesh!

Photo: News of the World

Another Run In

Clio mentioned that we had been attacked by two dogs a couple of weeks ago. Well, we came across them again today as we were walking towards home. Thankfully, Brian was with us this time.

It appears that their owners have taken over the German bar and the dogs flew at Clio as we went past. Brian hit out at them with the bag of videos which he was carrying. I haven´t seen Brian ´square up´ at anyone in years but matey backed down at the sight of him. His wife turned on me at that point which earned her another ´stupid cow´!

How on earth can people run a bar with dogs like that on the loose? At least I know where they are now and can avoid that part of the village.

All at Once!

As Shona had to leave today we decided to have an Indian meal delivered last night. We were just about to set off home when a pair of familiar faces appeared. Vernon and Vicky of all people.

Vernon is one of our mates from Cornwall days and it was great to see them both. Unfortunately, we had to get home for our delivery so it was a quick catch up. Happen we´ll see them again before they go back to England.

I went to the airport with Shona this morning and can report that she´s home again. I can´t believe how the week sped by.

A Little Holiday

Shona arrived last Thursday and as Brian has been working for most of the week we´ve been enjoying each other´s company and having a bit of fun. I did plan to blog our activities each day but it hasn´t happened so I´ll do a bit of a catch up.

We´ve pootled around the village most days doing a little bit of shopping, having the odd beer, walking Clio and eating out. We had a huge fried breakfast yesterday which made Brian very jealous. Such a sulk!

Today´s mission was to catch the bus to Los Cristianos and do the tourist thing. Shona had her usual ´duty free´ list, which we sorted and then went to Burger King. As it´s next in line to KFC, I really enjoyed it. It´s so nice to do something English now and again.

It´s her last day tomorrow and we´ve planned to visit the market and then pop over to Santiago for a couple of hours. More tourist stuff.

I´ll really miss her.

Yuck

My hankering for a KFC has continued and when I heard that a spicy chicken restaurant had opened in the village I was well eager to give it a go. I waited for a few reports..........some loved it and some didn´t. More good than bad. One mate, Ian, who always moans hated it but we put that down to him being a fusspot.

We had a fairly busy day and decided to try it out tonight. It was so awful and never again.