During week 9 of 2024, I had lunch with my friend Jim several times. I had coffee at the local bar/restaurant with my neighbour Liz & I got some shopping for my next holiday.
2024, week 9.
Monday, 26th February.
I woke up around 5:45 am, got myself a coffee & sat down at my computer to work. I first published last week's blog & then indexed another 100 pages on the Bing Search Engine. After doing this simple work, I did the morning Wordle puzzle & was pleased I got it quickly & then attempted the Connection puzzle. I bombed out on the Connection puzzle today. I got one connection very quickly but none of the other three, some of which I wouldn't have got even knowing the connection.
I had breakfast at 8:30 am & worked on my website till around 11:40 am when I stopped to go to the office. On the way to the office, I took some recycling to the bin & stopped to get some money at the ATM. Martin & I sat chatting & drinking till about 3 pm & then I left to go home. On my way past Rocco's bar on Rio Nalon, I saw my friend Yasmin, so I stopped to chat with her. When people started to arrive for the quiz at Rocco's, I went to La Petit Bistro to see my friend Alan. I was in time to play the last bingo game but didn't win anything. When Alan finished calling the bingo, he joined me for a drink. When his wife Jacquie went home, we moved to Perlitas bar for a drink before going to Harry's bar.
In Harry's bar, we saw some old friends that I hadn't seen for a long time, Paul & Paula. We sat talking & drinking with them & couldn't stop laughing. After leaving Harry's bar, I went home & got myself something to eat & sat down to watch the TV for a while before going to bed.
Tuesday, 27th February.
I woke at around 6:30 am but turned over & went back to sleep. I finally got up at around 8 am. I got a coffee & sat at my computer & indexed more of my website on both Google & Microsoft Bing. In the morning, I pottered about on my computer until 11 am.
At around 11 am, I had an inkling in my mind that I had forgotten something, so I checked my calendar to see what it was. I was glad I checked as I had mistaken the time Jim would collect me for lunch. He was coming to pick me up at 1:15 pm, not 11:15 am. I was glad I had checked before I walked outside to wait for him. I got myself a bit of toast & waited indoors until he arrived to pick me up at 1:15 pm.
We drove to Pinar de Campoverde to a restaurant called San Marino for the menu of the day. We met our friends David & Doreen there & had a great meal & a long chat. The meal was a typical three-course menu of the day. I had a pasta bolognese starter, pork main & a beautiful flan for dessert. If you have never been to this restaurant, I can highly recommend it, but I would advise calling to book a table as it gets busy sometimes & is only small.
When we left, we drove to Torre de la Horadada & stopped at a cafe overlooking the small port to have a coffee. We sat chatting & when it started to get colder, we finished our coffee & went home. Jim dropped me off but arranged to pick me up to go out to get some shopping on Thursday.
When I got into my apartment, I put on my heating & spent the rest of the evening watching TV before going to bed at around 10:30 pm.
Wednesday, 28th February.
Today, I woke up at around 7:30 am. I got myself a coffee & some porridge & then sat down at my computer to work on my website. I spent the entire day editing & posting photos into a photo album on my website for my trip on the Queen Mary II in 2011.
I had an early night & went to bed at around 10 pm.
Thursday, 29th February.
I woke up at 8 am & got myself a coffee & a bacon sandwich. I worked on my computer & did some investigation on video cameras. I like the small ones you see people making video blogs with. They look easy to carry around, but there are so many of them I am unsure which one to get myself.
At 1 pm, my friend Jim messaged me to say he would pick me up to go to La Zenia. I needed some walking boots for my holiday because I only have sandals, old trainers or sketchers, none suitable for walking around Alaska. I had ordered two different pairs from Amazon, but they didn't fit or weren't very good quality & got returned.
When we got to La Zenia we looked in Deichmanns shoes but they only had a limited selection & nothing that fitted me. We walked to Al Campo & found a great pair in a sale. They looked good, fit well & were a great price so I bought them. As we left, we walked past Primark & Jim wanted to look for something for his house. As I looked around I found a pair of track suit bottoms that fit me, & were very cheap, so I bought them. They will be ideal for lounging around the home or going to work at the office.
When we finished shopping, we went to the Wok Buffet for lunch. I had been there a few years ago & liked it. The food tasted very good & there was a great selection but it could have been kept warmer, a lot of it was only luke warm. It was also expensive compared to other buffets at €18.95 a person, without drinks. Jim & I both had a small bottle of water & these were added onto the bill, costing another €3.50 a bottle. I enjoyed what I had but I wont be in a hurry to go back. There are a lot of better & cheaper places, closer to home I can go to.
After lunch, Jim took me to Cafe Avenida in Los Alcazares for an Asiatica. We saw George & Yvonne there & sat with them chatting for a while & then Jim dropped me off at home. This evening, I began to watch a TV series called Mr Mercedes. It is a drama based on a Stephen King trilogy of books. It was very good & I watched it till I went to bed at 10:30 pm. I had got through another leap year without being proposed to, Julia Roberts & Salma Hayek please hurry up.
Friday, 1st March.
I got up at 7:30 am & got my coffee & some porridge. I sat down at my computer & did some more research on video cameras before ordering one that will be small enough for me to carry around on my travels but will still do everything I need it to do. I also added an extra battery back & a larger memory card for it in case I run out quicker than I anticipate, I don't want to run out of power or space halfway through the day when I am on my holiday.
At 10:30 am, I walked along to Buena Vista restaurant to meet my neighbour Liz for a coffee & a chat. We sat talking till just before midday when we returned to our apartments.
For lunch I had a seafood salad & then spent the rest of the day binge watching the TV series Mr Mercedes. I took a break around 8 pm for something to eat, when I had some chicken wings, but I watched it continually until around 11 pm when I went to bed.
Saturday, 2nd March.
I woke up at 7 am & got myself a coffee. I put some washing in the washing machine, filled my dishwasher & set it running & then took some recyclable plastic to the bin. When I returned to my apartment, I put my disability scooter on charge. Back at my apartment, I stripped the linen from my bed so that I could wash it later & then got some porridge.
I worked on my computer till around 1:30 pm, when I stopped. I walked to the Spice shop around the corner to buy a potato for dinner this evening & when I got back to my apartment, I had a pot of green tea & a toasted cheese & tuna sandwich for lunch. This afternoon, I flicked between football matches on the TV before watching more episodes of the Mr Mercedes drama on TV.
When my washing had finished, I stripped my bed linen & put it in the washing machine before returning to the sofa for more Mr Mercedes.
I went to cut the potato I had into chips this evening but as I cut into it I found that something had burrowed into. Leaving behind dark tunnels burrowed right through the centre of it. I threw it away & used the one very small potato I had left for chips. I had my fish with about six chips, decorated with tomato sauce, I suppose it could be called haut cuisine. It tasted fantastic I wish there had been a few more chips.
When my washing finished I took it out of the machine & remade my bed before watcing MOTD on TV. I went to bed when it finished.
Sunday, 3rd March.
I woke up at around 8 am today. I had a bit of a headache when I woke & I hoped it wasn't a head cold coming on. I got a coffee & checked my email. I did my Wordle puzzle online when I realised no one loved me enough to message me this morning. Unfortunately, Wordle beat me today despite having four of the five letters after only 2 attempts. There were just too many words it could have been. I got myself another coffee & worked on my website for a while before getting myself a bacon sandwich for breakfast.
Today was another very lazy day; the wind was blowing & whistling past my balcony & I kept warm under a blanket as I watched the remainder of season 2 of Mr Mercedes on the TV. This evening I watched the Manchester derby game on TV. I had hoped that United would win to help Arsenal out, but after taking a 0-1 lead, they allowed City back into the game & City won 3-1.
I went to bed fairly early, at about 10:30 pm. I want to make sure I am awake early in case my delivery arrives early tomorrow, I doubt it will but I don't want to be caught out.