Friday 26-8-2006

We sent a thank you email, from the internet café at Turre, to some really super friends at Pool who sent a nice surprise gift to us by post on the 3rd August. It only arrived yesterday and so has taken over twenty days to arrive.
We went up to Antas and found the two caravans that are for sale. Although they couldn’t really be described as immaculate they do have some potential with a bit of TLC, and providing that they can be transported to our site OK. We will visit a few other sales places before making a final decision on the matter early next week.
We came back to the rental very hot and sticky this afternoon but half an hour in the pool soon had us cooled down, it was quite chilly in the water and there was a warm but stiff wind blowing.
There is some sort of celebrations/fiesta taking place in Mojacar pueblo this weekend (probably celebrating a bank holiday or that the kids will be back at school soon) so we will go up there tomorrow evening and see what’s to do.
No pictures of any inspiration today, we will try harder tomorrow, promise.
We went over the road to Isobel and Eric’s last night and had a really nice supper together with friends from the village Roger, Nancy, Frank and Chris. It was a lovely warm evening of excellent alfresco food in very good company. After supper Eric staged what we called a ‘Crepe Cabaret‘ (which very quickly degenerated into the ‘Crap Cabaret‘ after us all having several small libations). This involved a long and hot session for Eric where he cooked personalised and individual crepes for each of us. He cooked them on a tableside serving trolley using just a his trusty and old single burner camping gaz stove and a small frying pan. This stove has travelled with Eric and Isobel all over the globe and has been used even in preference to buying a cup of café at a motorway service station on a wet winters day I Belgium (I think it was Belgium). The crepes cooked very slowly and were then doused liberally with Cointreau and flamed. As each crepe was served the rest of the company could only sit and watch it’s rapid consumption before the next crepe was prepared and cooked. The end result was brilliant and the chat and banter became very funny. It was not unlike watching one of Tommy Coopers sketches. It was an all-round super evening and a big thank you to Isobel and Eric for inviting us.