Our 1st Year Anniversary

Good Afternoon All

A year has passed to the day that we said our farewells and boarded that plane for our new life here in Spain. We cannot believe that a year can pass by so quickly, Any regrets....not one apart from wish we had done it sooner. We have spent our anniversary day on the beach, swimming and a tapas lunch out in around 35 degrees and beautiful blue seas to swim in. We both feel extremely lucky.

When we moved here i thought i would be writing this blog on a weekly basis but you end up just carrying on with life as normal even though it is just in a warmer and more relaxed place, but you still end up having to go shopping each week etc but it brightens up after the shopping when you can lay on a sun lounger and then have a dip in the jacuzzi....hehe

In the last few months Graham has got himself a job as a chef in a local restaurant in the evenings which helps out financiallylly alot and lets us have the treats of meals out and shopping days...much to Grahams delight..he has discovered a Zara, H & M, C & A etc only about 40 minutes away from us....dam it

Spanish lessons are plodding along but blimey it is tough going, just when you think you have cracked what a word means they then tell you it can mean something totally different and that you can change the last 2 letters in about 14 different ways as to whether it is male female happened yesterday tomorrow etc etc etc. And then you have the local dialect which basically means drops all the letters out of each word apart from 2 join them all together and speak them at 100 miles per hour and there you go......

We have plenty of visitors lined up for this year and the only months we are without guests so far is August, November and December...which is fantastic as its always good to see everyone and always appreciate the nappy sacks ( Dog Poo Bags ) for the boys as they are really expensive here. talking of the Dogs, Basil has not been very well, he was coughing up blood so a trip to the vets..Xrays, Scan and blood tests and he has the start of Heart Disease and Fibrosis so he is rattling with all the pills that he is now on. But he does seem to have perked up we seem to be having good days and bad days with him but as the vet said he is an old man and we have done all we can for him, so just treasuring every moment with him as always.

The garden is really starting to look good again now after the winter and I have had several cactus come into flower and all the Hibiscus are flowering, figs on the fig tree and just the one orange on the orange tree..all the rest of the blossom seems to have got blown off in the wind, but it is the first year for them.

We have been spending alot of time with our neighbours Maureen & Barry who live a couple of doors away and having some good days out with them. Not sure if i have written this before but Maureens Sister is married to my Aunties Brother !!! what a small world.

Graham and I are hoping to have a few nights away in October when my sister arrives for a week or so and has very kindly offered to dog sit for us...so BENIDORM  here we come........poor Graham is dreading it i think especially if I get my way and we stay at The Solana ( where they filmed the series Benidorm ).

Eurovision did not pass us by this year as anyone who knows us will testify that our Eurovision parties are quite legendary...well this year apart from supporting Spain of course we went to a friends for a Eurovision party and it was a fantastic evening. We were there along side some Spanish friends who really became quite excited by the whole thing...coloured wigs , face paint and very very vocal. A great night was had and ended up with a swim in the pool and then back home for around 3.30am.

Hopefully that has been a decent enough update.

Just to say we are both very happy and have no regrets and long may this life continue. To all our friends and family we do love you all and miss you very much but we are still not coming back...hehe

Thank you for reading this

Lots of Love

Barry & Graham