GOLF & PARTY TIME

TANGIER

October and November

Since we arrived the weather has settled and life has been rather good. Sue has managed the odd game of golf and we have done our share of entertaining.

We held a "British Night" party in honour of our friend Janet Gallick who reached a certain age and you can see Sue excelled herself with the decor and costumes.

Our dressing up served to frighten little kids with dressing up on Halloween. When Sue and I answered the door to them dressed like this they ran like mad!



With other friends, Jan and Mike, we went across to Tangier on the high speed ferry and that was an interesting experience for a day, lots of hastle from the locals trying to sell tourist "tat" but at least they speak french.

Since then the other outstanding event has been the birthdays of Stanley Heydon, 91, and Anthony Armitage, 71, so there was a joint birthday party for them both. Pictures as you can see.

All too soon it will be time to go home for Christmas to the cold and wet of England but we'll be back for the New Year.

If it's not too early can we wish a happy Christmas to all our readers?

TO SOUTHERN SPAIN

We left northern Spaina and decided to travel through Portugal. Not that we could see a lot as conditions were terrible, non stop heavy rain for seven hours and thick fog as we got to the tops of mountians so we were left with a poor impression of that country, particularlyas the petrol was even dearer than in England!

We stayed overnight at a Portuguese equivalent of a parador, this was a converted castle but unfortunately the decor seemed to have been done in the 1960's.

We eventually arrived at our home in Estepona and were glad to get there except the bad weather had followed us and instead of unbroken sunshire we had four days of really fierce storms which whipped the sea into a froth as you can see.

IN GALICIA

At the beginning of October I came by ferry with the car from Portsmouth to Santander to meet up with Susan and some friends so that we could explore the delights of Galicia.

The crossing was pretty wild and when I arrived the weather was rather like England, damp and still windy. However we enjoyed the scenery whcih was very different from most of Spain and as you can see from the photos, the local barns, "herros", are on stilts, originlly to keep out the rats from the grain stores.

The cathedral at Santiago de Compostela is very large and the object of all the many pilgrims who travel on foot across Spain to visit it to see where the body of one of the saints was allegedly found.

There are many pretty seaside ports around the caost and plenty of good seafood too.

In Spain

Not too much to write now as we have been in Spain since the beginning of October.
However I hope to publish a few photos of our Autumn activities in a few days.