DAY 21 THURSDAY, 15TH
OF NOVEMBER El Campello Day 2 in the area
The JovA hotel has quite a nice
spread for breakfast, eggs to order, toast as needed, cold cuts, cheese, fruit,
yogurts, orange juice, etc. Coffee etc…The sound of the Med outside the window
did not disturb us too much but the thrashing rain did! It has let up a bit but
we notice a bit of a leak under the French doors from the balcony so we grab a
bath towel and stopped the water! We
have time to kill as we will meet up with Gill at 2:00PM for lunch somewhere
and then who knows?
We worked on the blog a little
then decided to have a walk about now that rain and the thunderstorms had
abated from this mornings rude awakenings. Actually warmed up to the mid 60s
and the sun poked thru the clouds. Gill picked us up and we headed back to her
side of town to have an aperitive before lunch. We met up with her friend Harry
who will join us for lunch up the hill from town, Restaurant Colmar
It is a lovely place up above El
Compello with sweeping views right down to the Med. It was warm enough to sit
outside and the restaurant people were so sweet and accommodating in setting up
a table for us. We had a long leisurely meal with Mussels, fried sardines (bocarones), ensalada
mixta, grilled lamb chops with potatoes and peppers, desserts were chocolate
and cakes/cheesecakes. Lots of lovey wine and water and a Orujo to give the
final digestif! None of us were feeling any pain by this time!
The owner drove us back down to
town versus a costly cab ride. Such a sweet thing to do, I’m not sure if he was
alarmed by the raucous, tipsy senior citizens and making sure we got home
safely! Anyway , we stopped at another of Gill’s locals with Scots and other friends for an
after cap. Having had liquors at Colmar, Hierbas etc… Booze flowing! We really
are lightweights, but we kept up until we decided we needed to head back to the
hotel. I have no idea when that was only that we were done! Gill is such a
special friend, we have known each other for close on 50years and that takes a
lot of celebrating! A lot of catching up and reminiscing about years past. It
is wonderful to still have such lasting loving friendships. You are simply the
best Gill and we cherish your friendship!
Now, we were still full from
lunch, still nursing a bit of a buzz and I have no idea what we did later that
evening because Paul has not written the bullets!
A little comment on El Campello,
an expats dream, a lot of Brits who don’t speak Spanish even though they have
lived there for years, which is why Gill spends a lot of time being amazing,
going to Drs’ and hospital visits and
translating for them! Very quiet during the winter season and a lot of places
closed and on vacation until things pick up again!
We are heading out for Cartagena
in the morning so we have to reorganize everything!
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