Val & Petes Weblog

It’s that time of year again when we are treated to the sight of the most wonderful skies as the sun rises and then sets again at the end of the day.
I keep saying I must not take any more photos but I just can’t resist it as the beauty is awesome! There is really [...]

Although we are not ballroom dancers, having only taken a few basic lessons XX years ago, we are avid viewers of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
We really admire the contestants and the hard work they put in to training each week in order to put on a decent performance. We also admire the professionals in the [...]

The weather today is absolutely fabulous and we’ve reverted back to tee-shirts and shorts. It’s currently reading 22 in the shade and is absolutely scorching in the sun without a cloud in the sky.
Aren’t we lucky? But I bet it will get chilly tonight!

We were right! The paint touching up does show and therefore it is time for a total repaint.
However, the painters that were here were very efficient, clean and tidy so we asked them to quote us for painting the whole interior of the villa. The quote was pretty good so we weighed up the cost [...]

We have workmen in the villa at the moment fixing snagging and settling cracks. Everywhere is a mess as every room needs something done in it but we will just have to turn a blind eye until they finish next week sometime and then have a major clean up.
When they paint over the repairs, we [...]

After the lovely meal supplied to us by Tom Sarah and friends on arriving back on Wednesday, we have enjoyed a fabulous Italian meal at a new restaurant in Benitachell with Tom and Sarah and a wonderful pasta dish at another Italian restaurant in Moraira when we dined alone. Then our friends Bob and Linda [...]

We hear you folks have had a wonderful Indian Summer in the UK but that it is looking like it may be over as the weather has turned.
We too, have had wonderful weather but like you guys it changed on Wednesday night, but unlike you people we know it can change back again just as [...]

On Friday 30th September we received a call in the UK from our alarm company in Spain to advise us that we had no electricity supply in the villa. It transpired that there had been a power cut on the previous Monday, which had tripped a circuit breaker so when power was restored it did [...]

11 days ago in the UK we both succumbed to the good old English cold. The only colds we have had since we moved to Spain in May 2000 have been caught on our visits to the UK so I suppose we should not have been surprised.
However, this one is a cheat, as by the [...]

We had an excellent journey back to Spain on Wednesday 5th October. No delays thank goodness as it had been chaos the day before as the French were striking yet again.
We arrived early at Valencia airport and our luggage came through immediately on their one conveyor belt! Tom and Sarah, our next door neighbours and [...]