Saturday 21-10-2006

Strewth there's three months gone since we came to Spain. Time flies when you're having fun.
Reporting back on our meal at El Ranchos last night.
Wonderful. Fabulous. Marvelous. Very , very good.
It was probably the very best bought out meal that I have ever had in my short little life. We didn't have a starter, as such, but bread and allioli (strong wonderful garlic butter) were brought to the table whilst we enjoyed a drink.
Elayne ordered chicken breast, flattened to half plate size and grilled on the open fire, with chips. I ordered entrecote steak, also grilled to perfection on the open fire, with chips.
The last time I had an entrecote steak was with Dave and Elsie Cooper from Nitran, Dundee, at the casino in Dundee. It was two inches thick and about three inches in diameter and Dave and I had to share it. It took half an hour to eat and we couldn't talk whilst we struggled to eat it.
This steak, last night, was three quarter large plate size and nearly an inch thick. It was moist. It was delighfully tender. It was full of delicious flavours. It was a sensation. It was a great joy and pleasure to eat.
We both gave the whole meal above ninty out of one hundred. We were not bloated afterward and we had a little room for a delightful whiskey ice cream sweet, followed by coffee (Spanish style).
We will be returning again as soon as decently possible for our figures and pockets, just hoping that this was not a 'flash in the steak pan':-)))
We had a windy night up here but everything is secure and only occasionally did the caravan move about although it was quite noisy at times. The Sky dish is buffetting about a bit but it is in a very exposed position.
Today we have been to Antas and then Vera (pronounced Bera) and then back home.
Tonight we are going to have a video call with Steve, Debs, Ivan, Ollie and Nick is staying with them just now so we can talk away and see each other at the same time for free on Skype.
I have even bought ten metres of USB cable extension so that we can show them all the whole of the inside of the caravan. It should be a bit of fun. Technology working for people instead of against them.
We have just had a long video chat with Sandra and Malcolm Pinder. Malcolm bought Sandra six doves, and a victorian dove cote, for their wedding anniversary (old softy, Elayne went ahhhh!)and Sandra's birthday. Malcolm was able to walk outside with his laptop and video camera so that we could see the doves and the dove cote. It is truly amazing seeing live pictures from something like two thousand miles away as easy as that. I was also able to put a pair of sunglasses over the video camera lens and show them the almond trees and mountains.
After the call with Steve tonight and after the strictly come dancing programme we may go down to Lentisco's at about ten o'clock. That is if we can stay awake that long.