Okay, okay, it was sunny but we didn't go into the sea and I don't really like sangria. More like Sun, promenade and San Miguel but that could be anywhere couldn't it? Needless to say we're back from our weekend jaunt to Spain. Not a whole bunch of time to write anything of subtance here, but here is a link to the photos that we rattled off over the weekend.
Calonge Photos
Monday, April 26, 2004
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
In sickness and poor health
It’s been a while since the last update but it’s not for the lack of event. I left you with words of sickness. Fi had just started the throwing up phase of what I was sure to be the same bug that Rach and I had suffered over the Easter weekend, and so it proved. It hit Fi harder than the rest of us and she struggled to shake it of as we entered last weekend. You’ll notice that that I said ‘the rest of us’ and I really mean that. Griff, Jess, Paul, Marla, and my Dad all contracted the ‘bug’ over the past week – very nasty.
Enough of the sickness
Fi and I are off to Spain this weekend. It will be our first trip to Fi’s parents’ new house in Calonge. Naturally we are both looking forward to it and it means another long weekend. We’re flying from Bournemouth to Girona with Ryanair. Odd, I didn’t even realise that Bournemouth had an airport. If it turns out okay, I suspect it will become our airport of choice. We can only fly to Barcelona from Bristol airport and that’s with EasyJet and on the whole its more expensive. Girona airport is apparently only around 40 minutes from Jim and Patsy which is far more convenient than the 90 mins from Barcelona.and at £55 each, they’ll be no complaints from us!
Enough of the sickness
Fi and I are off to Spain this weekend. It will be our first trip to Fi’s parents’ new house in Calonge. Naturally we are both looking forward to it and it means another long weekend. We’re flying from Bournemouth to Girona with Ryanair. Odd, I didn’t even realise that Bournemouth had an airport. If it turns out okay, I suspect it will become our airport of choice. We can only fly to Barcelona from Bristol airport and that’s with EasyJet and on the whole its more expensive. Girona airport is apparently only around 40 minutes from Jim and Patsy which is far more convenient than the 90 mins from Barcelona.and at £55 each, they’ll be no complaints from us!
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Silver with cloudy lining
Well, we're all back from Cornwall - finally. It turned out to be an eventful weekend and the fun and games started on Thursday morning...
Fi and I had packed the Vitesse on Wednesday evening, ready for me to drive to work on Thursday. En-route, I would pick Griff up, the rational of all this being that we could leave for Cornwall straight after work, or at least, once Fi had driven from Mangotsfield to meet up with us at Aztec West.
Fi left for work about 5 minutes before me and had crucially taken the house keys with her. Once I had manhandled the Rover out of the drive I was imediately drawn to a 'groaning' from the power-steering. Alarm bells started ringing..... I remembered Jim conveying a story about how one of the power-steering pipes had burst in a multi-storey car park just a few months before. Once I had driven the 1/2 mile to pick up Griff, I parked up, jumped out and my fears were confirmed. Fluid was draining itself out of one of the Hydraulic lines on the power-steering. There ended the Vitesse's trip to Cornwall. Griff had to get to work, so drove off in his car, but my problems were more compicated...
I had no keys for the house and no keys for the Fiat, which was parked in a security-minded fashion in front of the garage. Besides that, the Fiat was not big enough to get all our and Griff's stuff in and the Mondeo was in Mangotsfield with Fi... Thankfully Jay and Marie had the day off. They were planning to go to Cornwall around 10am. More importantly they have a spare key to our house! So, about 2 hours later, the Fiat out of the way and the Vitesse in the garage, Jay and Marie dropped me off at Fi's work (en-route to Cornwall) to pick up the Mondeo. Once back home I unpacked the Rover and packed the Mondeo, ready to Pick Fi up at 4pm. After an uneventful journey, we arrived in Cornwall around 8:30pm - Phew!
We managed to cram loads into the trip - Eden Project on Friday, The National Maritime Museum at Falmouth on Saturday and Minnack Theatre on Sunday, which was also Fi's Birthday. A few weeks back, Fi had briefly mentioned that she would like a 'jelly and ice-cream' party. I had informed my parents of this and they really came up trumps. After rushing back from Minnack, we suprised Fi with a party fit for a 6 year old! Jay and Marie had to work on Easter Monday so left around 4pm, whilst the remaining group finally decided upon curry as a celebratory dinner for Fi. The Balti King in Hayle is an Indian restaurant I would recommend to anyone, and my 'Chicken Tikka Balti Fairly Hot' was top stuff indeed. Unfortuantely the rest of the night was not.
After watching Phil Mickelson birdie the 72nd to win the Masters, I put myself to bed. An hour later I was throwing up.., this continued every hour or so until arounf 5am - one of the most unpleasant nights I can remember having. It turned out that the same thing happened to Rach. Being that we were both staying in the chalet, I'm amazed we weren't in competition for the bathroom at any point! We were left with a problem on Monday. I felt terrible and couldn't be too far from a bathroom at any one point and Rach was the same. We were both faced with a 3 1/2 hour car trip!! I for one couldn't make it but Rach was up for it and at around 3pm, Paul, Rach, Marla and Griff left for home. Jess, not needing to be at work the next day stayed with us and we all travelled back earlier today.
As I write this, Fi is in bed. She's been throwing up since 5pm...... Here we go again!
Fi and I had packed the Vitesse on Wednesday evening, ready for me to drive to work on Thursday. En-route, I would pick Griff up, the rational of all this being that we could leave for Cornwall straight after work, or at least, once Fi had driven from Mangotsfield to meet up with us at Aztec West.
Fi left for work about 5 minutes before me and had crucially taken the house keys with her. Once I had manhandled the Rover out of the drive I was imediately drawn to a 'groaning' from the power-steering. Alarm bells started ringing..... I remembered Jim conveying a story about how one of the power-steering pipes had burst in a multi-storey car park just a few months before. Once I had driven the 1/2 mile to pick up Griff, I parked up, jumped out and my fears were confirmed. Fluid was draining itself out of one of the Hydraulic lines on the power-steering. There ended the Vitesse's trip to Cornwall. Griff had to get to work, so drove off in his car, but my problems were more compicated...
I had no keys for the house and no keys for the Fiat, which was parked in a security-minded fashion in front of the garage. Besides that, the Fiat was not big enough to get all our and Griff's stuff in and the Mondeo was in Mangotsfield with Fi... Thankfully Jay and Marie had the day off. They were planning to go to Cornwall around 10am. More importantly they have a spare key to our house! So, about 2 hours later, the Fiat out of the way and the Vitesse in the garage, Jay and Marie dropped me off at Fi's work (en-route to Cornwall) to pick up the Mondeo. Once back home I unpacked the Rover and packed the Mondeo, ready to Pick Fi up at 4pm. After an uneventful journey, we arrived in Cornwall around 8:30pm - Phew!
We managed to cram loads into the trip - Eden Project on Friday, The National Maritime Museum at Falmouth on Saturday and Minnack Theatre on Sunday, which was also Fi's Birthday. A few weeks back, Fi had briefly mentioned that she would like a 'jelly and ice-cream' party. I had informed my parents of this and they really came up trumps. After rushing back from Minnack, we suprised Fi with a party fit for a 6 year old! Jay and Marie had to work on Easter Monday so left around 4pm, whilst the remaining group finally decided upon curry as a celebratory dinner for Fi. The Balti King in Hayle is an Indian restaurant I would recommend to anyone, and my 'Chicken Tikka Balti Fairly Hot' was top stuff indeed. Unfortuantely the rest of the night was not.
After watching Phil Mickelson birdie the 72nd to win the Masters, I put myself to bed. An hour later I was throwing up.., this continued every hour or so until arounf 5am - one of the most unpleasant nights I can remember having. It turned out that the same thing happened to Rach. Being that we were both staying in the chalet, I'm amazed we weren't in competition for the bathroom at any point! We were left with a problem on Monday. I felt terrible and couldn't be too far from a bathroom at any one point and Rach was the same. We were both faced with a 3 1/2 hour car trip!! I for one couldn't make it but Rach was up for it and at around 3pm, Paul, Rach, Marla and Griff left for home. Jess, not needing to be at work the next day stayed with us and we all travelled back earlier today.
As I write this, Fi is in bed. She's been throwing up since 5pm...... Here we go again!
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Preps for Cornwall
Fi and I dropped the cats (Daisy and Pumpkin) off at the Catery this evening ahead of our trip to Cornwall over the easter weekend. They've not been in a catery (I keep wanting to write 'Carvery'!!) before so we're naturally a little concerned. I'm sure they'll be fine though.
I do hope we get to Hayle without incident. Fi, Griff and I are riding in the Vitesse. It's a beast but at almost 20 years old and 125000 miles on the clock it might prove to be fragile. No doubt Jim has put it back together as good as anyone could, but were they ever reliable cars? Who knows? Incidentally, I'm sure you'll all be glad to know that Sainsburys sells LRP which has until now, been hard to find.
I do hope we get to Hayle without incident. Fi, Griff and I are riding in the Vitesse. It's a beast but at almost 20 years old and 125000 miles on the clock it might prove to be fragile. No doubt Jim has put it back together as good as anyone could, but were they ever reliable cars? Who knows? Incidentally, I'm sure you'll all be glad to know that Sainsburys sells LRP which has until now, been hard to find.
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Oh stop, its ghastly
I'm the first to admit that this site looks crap at the moment. Hopefully, in time, I'll modify the template to make it my own
So, what about the Bahrain Grand Prix then? Yeah, what about it? So the facilities are Stunning, but I'm not alone in thinking that it lacked character. Quote of the week goes to my Mother 'It looks like a computer game'.... and a ropey one at that. Unfortunately, once again the racing didn't match the quality of the circuit.
I've already given up hope of anything other than a Ferrari stroll this year but is it too much to ask for a bit more excitement? Klien was amusing at the start whilst battling with Raikkonen, Ralf was amusingly bad and Alonso provided some entertainment but that was it. Of course I may have missed some good bits... I was downloading a large file from the internet during the race and waiting for the percentage bar to increase by 1 was a constant draw on my attention.
Next race is in San Marino. Fortunately, Fi and I will be in Spain as I suspect waiting for the next Seat to rattle by will provide more entertainment.
I've already given up hope of anything other than a Ferrari stroll this year but is it too much to ask for a bit more excitement? Klien was amusing at the start whilst battling with Raikkonen, Ralf was amusingly bad and Alonso provided some entertainment but that was it. Of course I may have missed some good bits... I was downloading a large file from the internet during the race and waiting for the percentage bar to increase by 1 was a constant draw on my attention.
Next race is in San Marino. Fortunately, Fi and I will be in Spain as I suspect waiting for the next Seat to rattle by will provide more entertainment.
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