Screenshot of our travels on Christmas day... We went out on the dark blue line and came home along the paler blue! Love these phones, written in history our every move, for good or for bad...
It was a bit cloudy at home, but much better once we got further inland, sky opened up for miles on end... although I did get some great shots of the wind turbines, their bases firmly fixed upon the earth and their blades hidden in the clouds...
We went first to have a coffee in the Kiosko at the lakes, we booked a table for two in the restaurant there for one pm... la una! We finished our coffees and walked around to the dam... not as much water as we thought there would be, expected it to be full to bursting with all the rain we've had recently, but it wasn't even over the steps near the dam at all!!
At one we were back to the Kiosko for lunch, upstairs, by the roaring fire... No starters, Franco had piglet, and I had kid! Sorry my friends who don't eat meat, we really went the whole 9 yards didn't we with our food! It was wonderful, both with roast potatoes and veggies, I had a small glass of house red, which actually was very nice, and cremé brulés for us both for desert!
We took our time and chatted with a neighbouring table, three people from Wales!! Bridgend and Porthcawl! Bizarre bizarre!! But live here in Spain too, Álora.
After lunch we took to the car and took to the road, up past Bobastro and to our secret place up a narrow road, I took a fair few photographs from up there, [more to follow].
We came home via Álora as it happens and then followed the road all the way to Cartáma Estacion, the long route we call it, and have only done it once before!! So a way bigger distance that we thought we were going to do! But no matter, a beautiful day, making beautiful memories...
Franco is doing great! Eating like a horse! [sorry!!], we had x-ray results which we had had taken because of bad pain in his neck and back, they showed there is nothing wrong with his spine or joints, although of course it did mean the pain is because of the tumour, Franco and I are out and about! Day before yesterday we went to Calahonda and had coffee with a friend, used to be our neighbour down in the duplex when we lived down there. It was an emotional cup of coffee, for all three of us. Difficult.
We also bought cannelloni, we had been looking everywhere for it and found it eventually in Super Sol down at El Zoco in Calahonda!
I had overdone things on the lap top and compressed something in my neck, which is starting to ache again now, so not looking at the screen at all while I am typing now, to avoid a repeat of it! I had vertigo!! Thought it was my ear problem come back, but no earache, just neck ache! Stupid stupid me, I panicked, couldn't think how I can go to work like this! Idiot! Then toothache yesterday, also getting better, I am having trouble coping, period, don't need all this on top, I have to be okay to... be okay... Franco needs me to be okay!
TTFN
Marian
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