Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Englisg Bar Resaurant Take Away For Sale/ Rent, Costa del Sol, Spain




Dear Reader,

Eli is in hospital as a result of the chronic nosebleeds she has been suffering for quite a while now. She is going to have some sort of surgical reinforcement or replacement of the weak blood vessels and hopefully that will cure her problem. We are already missing her at our bar restaurant in San Pedro along with all the regular bar customers who adore her, as she is such a conscientious worker and loves especially to get the bar restaurant prepared to open each morning before Olivia arrives.

Olivia of course loves this aspect of Eli’s performance, as she gets a chance to enjoy a coffee with me, sitting in the sunshine at a nice bar in the Marbella area before she starts work herself. Well to be fair, she stats work at around 9 am, doing shopping in Estepona or Marbella, for the bar along with banking ad other regular tasks.

The replacement girl we have is Chilean. Her name is Carla and she has previous experience of working in our bar restaurant. Carla is a pleasant girl to work with. She speaks some English, but she’ll have forgotten an awful lot about running the restaurant and Olivia will have a tough first week of it.

If you are thinking of taking on a small bar restaurant yourself; I would advise you to have two waiters/waitresses working part time and not one full time, this gives you a lot more flexibility when one of them becomes ill, as you can offer more hours to the other one.

I have included a picture of the puppies eating Royal Canine food (Soaked in water for several hours.) This is in response to numerous email I have received asking for regular shots of the puppies as they develop.

This morning over breakfast Olivia and I talked about putting he bar restaurant lease up for sale at a affordable price, at the beginning of the new year. We also talked about advertising the business as , English Bar Restaurant for sale in San Pedro, Marbella, Costa del Sol, but Olivia wanted to know what we would do with the money from the sale of the “bar for sale in Spain.” I suggested that we could buy a tired apt in Malaga and do it up for resale, but Olivia definitely wasn’t ready for that idea and I came dangerously close to having a cup of coffee poured over my head. So anyway soon we will be advertising either:

English Bar Restaurant Take Away to rent/ lease in Spain (Costa del Sol).

or

English Bar Restaurant Take Away for sale in Spain (Costa del Sol).

If we rent or lease the bar, we will have to find either, people who will carry on what we do or people who have catering experience and have a good idea of their own for the business, but of course if we advertise: English bar for sale in Spain and then sell the bar freehold, the there’s no need to be so fussy about who we sell to.

Cheers

Graham .

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Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Oriana, my Niece Leaves Costa del Sol to Return to her family in Chile.



Dear Reader,

I hope that you enjoyed your weekend! We certainly did, but not by doing the normal relaxing things, like visiting places of natural interest /architectural beauty or meeting up with good friends at a bar or restaurant, to enjoy some good Spanish food and drink. Instead we all mucked in to clear away tools and dust, from the bar restaurant and the flat. Claudio has finished the improvements and he left for Chile yesterday. We paid him for the wonderful work that he has done and he was really happy, as the euros he earned from us have about treble the value in Chile. When his daughter Oriana (my niece) came to say goodbye to me at the bar restaurant on Saturday, she broke down in tears and I have to admit the thought of her going back to live on the other side of the globe brought tears to my eyes as well.

Oriana is a young person who attracts “trouble” but you can’t help loving her, as she has a very beautiful side to her personality too. Apart from Oriana working for us in our bar restaurant and also helping Olivia out in the restaurant, sometimes with zero notice, when she had to many customers to be able to cope; she would often come to visit me when she new that I was having a bad time with my back and couldn't come down to the bar myself and also whenever she passed the bar restaurant on her way to or from her own job, she’d always ask Olivia if she needed anything for the bar from the local supermarket.

So Claudio has left some beautiful work (done to our apt.) behind him here on the Costa del Sol and each time we look at the new rustic kitchen floor etc we’ll think of him in Chile and we’ll definitely miss Oriana in many ways and think very kindly of her.


Oriana has done a lot of bar restaurant work here in Spain, but we really hope that she will take a course in Chile and go to work in one of the many areas she loves, like working with plants and animals or showing tourists around architectural sites. We wish her lots of luck and every body here in the bar restaurant will miss her and feel sad that she's gone.


















Claudio has resolved all the power socket issues.










Micro moved from worktop to eye-level.

Cheers

Graham

>>Click Here! Bar Restaurant for Rent, Sale, Costa del Sol, Spain<<

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Monday, 3 December 2007

Aimy Comes Back to Visit Us in our Bar Restaurant! Jose with Smallest Puppy.


Dear Reader,


Hi, I’m Jose aged 10 and I’ve asked Graham to write this for me, as my English is not brilliant yet!

In the picture I am holding the smallest Yorkshire pup, which now at four weeks weighs 450 grams. Her name is Angela.

Every Saturday My mum goes to Grahams bar restaurant Estepona Marbella to visit Olivia and usually I go with her.

We have a brand new medium sized van, but my Mum can’t get it out of the garage space, which is beneath a busy bar restaurant in Marbella, as there are so many concrete columns to reverse around. My Mum is going to look for a better parking space. My Mum’s name is Aimy and she worked at Graham’s bar restaurant for 15 years. She is now accepted by Graham and Olivia, as a daughter.

Bye for now

Jose

Hi (Graham),

2 Years ago Aimy had to leave the bar to have a hysterectomy performed in the hope of alleviate chronic abdominal pain, but after the op the pain levels continued and prevented her from resuming her job at our bar restaurant.

Olivia and Aimy are together now in the bar, whilst Jose is half learning how to operate a blog and half playing with the puppies. The puppies are fenced in in the closed in terrace, which faces south. The sun is beaming in, they have a heating pad beneath one end of their whelping box and they have plants for shade. It's a glorious December day and everyone is happy.


Cheers

Graham .

>>Click Here! Bar Restaurant for Rent, Sale, Costa del Sol, Spain<<

(If you are looking for a really brilliant architect who is bi-lingual and will convert your house or build you a new one, together with all the correct legal papers; please email me through my website for more details).

*****Bargain House For Sale*****

Town house in Urb. Mar y Monte, Needs doing up. Quick sale sought. Going Cheap.

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Thursday, 29 November 2007

Brilliant Builders from Ronda and from Chile.

Dear Reader,

What a glorious day it’d been on the Costa del Sol. Almost December and I’m in a tee shirt. This really nice weather has brought out lots of bar restaurant customers, which is just as well, as we have to pay-off Claudio our builder tomorrow. We won’t see him again in the bar for quite a while, as he’s going back to Chile were his wife is really missing him. However if we find a project to invest in here, we may well, bring him back to do the renovation, as he can do most trades to a good standard and we get back 25% of what we pay him, as he loves spending time in our bar restaurant after he has done his days work.

The bricklayers from Cuevas del Becero,Ronda, Mateo and Co have finished the two main entrances to our urbanization, so I am really featuring them here today, as they have done a fantastic job of constructing two decorative rustic brick arches. The have been traveling backwards and forwards from Ronda to work here on the Costa del Sol each day, so I feel sure that they are looking forward to being based back in Ronda town tomorrow. They think it’s really great that I have taken their pictures and pictures of their wonderful work and that they will appear on the web. I’ll include their contact details and they can be contacted through my website. Mateo Construciones y ReformasTel: (00 34 )659 84 88 90Whilst we have had 20 happy years in the bar restaurant in Marbella, Costa del Sol, we do want to sell it and do something completely different for a few years. We like the idea of buying an old property and refurbishing it to a good specification, so all the contacts that we have made will come in useful when the time does eventually come.

Cheers

Graham .

>>Click Here! Bar Restaurant for Rent, Sale, Costa del Sol, Spain<<

(If you are looking for a really brilliant architect who is bi-lingual and will convert your house or build you a new one, together with all the correct legal papers; please email me through my website for more details).

*****Bargain House For Sale*****

Town house in Urb. Mar y Monte, Needs doing up. Quick sale sought. Going Cheap.

****Great Pool Guy does maintenance, heat pumps, drinking water filtration. We fully recommend him::

bobagua@hotmail.com *****