exciting title for today isnt it! sorry... but the photo is good, one i have 'borrowed' the www its Haro La Rioja, in the north of spain, a beautiful old town, its built on a mountain side and very very old, every other shop is a bodega, wine is every where! down rickety old stairways to the cellars beneath, and big factories on the out skirts of the town, there is a beautiful square i have put photos that i have taken on here before, loads of storks and their massive nests built so precariously you cant see how they ever stay up, or hold all their babies!
now the weekend... saturday friends and i went to la trocha, the big shopping centre in coín, well big probably isnt the word, not compared with places in the uk, and i think my family in the states would exclaim '... and where is it really then marian?' its just one walkway, shops to the right and shops to the left, no upper/lower floors, no sudden turns and another line of stores... but its there, and coín now has lots more than it had before, although if your in the town its a bus ride to trocha... la cañada and miramar are much more what we in enland are used to, but small even so compared to the one at blue water etc, the biggest shopping mall i have been to is in conneticut i think and although we were walking around for 5 hours we never once retraced our steps!! toooooooo much, you can only do so much!
anyway, trocha, walk about and drinks....
sunday franco pippa and i went to market, under la trocha, in the car park at street level, then we dropped pippa off and we went down to the coast, we were looking for ink cartridges for our printer, that seem to be the hardest thing to find! i didnt slip over sunday which is good! but franco fell out of a tree today... not good! he has some bumps and bruises now, so thats my friend fallen over and now him! does everyone have to copy me??
today... work, the shop was shut, but we have new racks in now and have to move the summer stuff out and the winter stuff in, first it needs sorting and going through properly...
thats it really i think.... have put off my trip down to see friend tomorrow as everything is shut for asuncíon dia, or assumption day in english, the day thats celebrates mary being received into heaven, her heavenly birthday i guess...
its also the final day of our celebrations here in alhaurín that have been continuing all week as the virgin is taken through all the different areas, barios, each night...
before i go i got a postcard from my cousin tim today, he was in bermuda when he sent it... the card shows bermuda, but the card was printed in italy, and before it came to spain it went to malta first!?!
its so hot, think thats why my mind is going from one thing to another and cant think stright... no air, just hot hot hot... we all looked at work today like we had been in the shower without first taking off our clothes!!!
Close your eyes to the faults of others and watch the doors of friendship swing wide...
TTFN
Marian
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