Sundowners

Another crappy phone photo I'm afraid ... I forgot my camera this afternoon. Will try to do better. And also stop taking photos of sunsets. Edit: here is dawn on this day last year, which was the actual view from the house we rented.

We went to the Friday market this morning, to buy a few more supplies. It was heaving, and parking was a complete nightmare -- it might as well have been the middle of summer, and we ended up miles away. I called into the MRW office (ubiquitous Spanish parcel delivery company) to pick up my package from SpainInternet (ordered on Wednesday evening). 

This is such a great system -- we used it last time we were here. It's a tiny wifi hotspot that fits into the palm of your hand. They post it to you, you boot it up, then connect all your devices to it like any other wifi network, and ... it just works. At least when you are somewhere where you can see the 4G/5G masts from the window. Plug into a power point and forget about it till you leave, when you pop it into the prepaid jiffy bag and drop it into a postbox. So we are all connected up again now, with more bandwidth than you can shake a stick at.

Home for lunch; S fired up the barbecue and grilled a very fresh sea bream while I fried potatoes. Fresh pineapple for afters. We lounged for the rest of the afternoon; I for one was feeling worn out because a bored Mystère had woken me at 5:30 a.m. He continued to complain off and on until at 7:30 I gave in, got up, and fed him two different kinds of food, both of which he rejected. Sigh. He did eat some of our bream at lunch though.

We went back into town in the late afternoon to run the rest of our errands and visited various favourite spots that were too far to walk this morning. Mari-Trini for bread and pastries. The lovely arty jewellery and ceramics shop on the square, every item one of a kind. It was closed, but there's always something to admire in the window, and I duly did.

We walked back to the car via the ham shop and San Cristóbal seafront, currently a vast building site as they do something major with water mains. Most of the businesses are still open despite the chaos, and it was such a lovely evening that it would have been rude not to stop at Pepe Dígame for a drink and a tapa (blip). Plus after two days in the land of free tapas we still hadn't visited a bar. Job done.

Home to finish the bottle of wine we started at lunchtime, along with jamón and pan con tomate. And relax!