Costa del Sol Joins the Modern World.

Dear Reader,

Olivia and me were in the bar/ restaurant earlier, mainly cleaning up after the electrician’s work. Happily now the bar floor is squeaky clean once more.

Before we left home I took a few snaps of the Puppies

Yorkie Puppies in Estepona-San Pedro,Take first steps, at 3 weeks.

who are now allowed to leave their whelping box on sprees and explore the enclosed terrace. It has been great fun watching them learning the rudiments of walking. A few friends from the bar restaurant have been up to take pictures and to see them, but we don’t allow any handling, as Sami the mother gets really agitated when that happens.

Claudio is trying to wear several hats at the same time in finishing off some of the jobs in the apt, repairing the glass- fibre roof over the bar restaurant terrace and also trying to get his daughter’s apt ready to hand back to the owners on Friday. We have been helping him by shopping for plaster and tiles etc, which is why we were to be found in the bar so early this morning.

Do you remember when if you wanted a pair of taps,

The old family run type feriteria on the Costa del Sol.

you’d simply go to the local hardware shop and buy them; well that’s all gone here in Estepona and on the Costa del Sol in general. All shopping for DIY or building and plumbing bits is done in big out of town commercial parks or (poligonos industriales).

Costa del Sol new style commercial parks come with landscaped round abouts. ( Pictured here San Pedro-Marbella).

They have so much stock, a lot of choice and bills are fully computerized, so that when you need to change anything, it can all be done in a flash.

Yes! The Costa del Sol is entering the modern world with great gusto!

Cheers

Graham .

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We Are Prisoners in our own Bar, Restaurant and Take-Away, All Day Today!

Dear Readers,

Today the builders are putting the finishing touches to our kitchen floor at home and we have become prisioners in our own bar, restaurant and take-away in Marbella. We have been told that we cannot walk on the new tiles for 12 hours. However we do have tiles in our bar and are free to walk on them, plus we have food, drink, toilets and lovely clients, so what’s the problem However it’ll be really nice when we can actually return home to our apt and walk on our own floor. Tonight we will not be able to even enter the kitchen, but fortunately we do have a bar in our lounge and the fridge containing the ice cubes is currently in the entrance hall, so we’ll go to bed happy!

Cheers

Graham .

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Lovely Luna Comes To Visit the Bar Restaurant.

Dear Readers,

A family of good friends and good customers at our bar restaurant in Marbella-West; Tony, Yara and their lovely 10m year old daughter left the area to head for Malaga city where Tony has a cracking job doing IT development work in an industrial park just outside Malaga. They call us at the bar regularly and usually come to visit us at work in the bar on Saturdays.

Luna is a very loving little child and it’s a great pleasure to see her each week. At the moment as soon as she arrives at the bar restaurant, Tony goes off on local business, Inés chats with Yara and Luna comes to the apt to play with the Yorkie puppies. She says she likes going to school in

Malaga, but preferred her school here in Cancelada, Estepona.

Cheers

Graham .

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Claudio is Brilliant in Bar Resayrant and Apt. Chas comes up Trumps with Professional Butane Equipment!

Life in the Sun

Dear Reader,

Today our wonderfully talented builder, who is capable seemingly of doing anything, has moved from doing electrical mods. at the bar restaurant to laying a new decorative tiled floor, which will flow from the kitchen into the “lavadero”, washing room. His name is Claudio and he’s here all the way from Chile. He came mainly to see his daughter who once worked with us in our bar restaurant in West Marbella, but it is essential that he returns home to his wife in Chile with plenty of US dollars to pay the bills.

We are thrilled to bits with the fact that he can do so many different trades, apart from installing additional plug points in the bar restaurant, he has also replaced all the sockets in our house with new double or treble ones and behind the telly he has installed a nine point plug socket, so that we can now plug all the satellites and stuff into the same power point without the need for any adaptors or extension leads. All the nine or so cables from the tele. and satellite boxes, he has hidden I just one umbilical chord, which was my wife’s dream. Now one can vac. behind the tele. with just one cable to work around.

The Jeep:

On Monday morning as I left the bar in Estepona to take Victor to Marbella, I noticed that the temperature gauge on the Mitsubishi had shot up alarmingly and realized that I could no longer ignore the hairline crack in the top of the radiator. I called Chas who maintains swimming pools (If you need him please contact my via my mail to on my website www.26intheshade.com). He kindly lent us a fantastic state of the art butane torch, solder and flux and I let Victor do all the heating of the rad, whilst I fed in the flux an solder. The jeep is now back on the road again.

Special thanks to Claudio for all his beautiful building work both in the restaurant and the aptand to Chas for the loan of his wonderful professional soldering kit, without which we would have been lost!

Cheers

Graham .

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