It is Steve's birthday today and he is having an idyllic day so far. Breakfast in the awning, opening presents, a swim at the pool, then a siesta in lovely cool Stan now that we have got the air conditioning unit going which we brought with us. Tonight we are picking up Degsy to go out for a birthday meal together; Steve has picked to go to the restaurant which we went to on the very first night of my 50th birthday party here - we had such good fun, even though not many people knew each other but everyone was throwing themselves into party mode! Some of you will remember it well, especially Trevor feeding my Mum lychees!
Life is settling down now into holiday chilled routines. Mornings and evenings are lovely temperatures but 12-4pm is really too hot for us Brits and you need to go somewhere cool for lunch or - like us - find somewhere with air con. Wouldn't like to bring the dogs here in July/August as it would be too hot. They are coping well (we keep putting ice cubes in their water and encouraging them to keep up their fluids, sometimes with the help of a little milk...) because I think they love being in the caravan; we are so pleased that it seems a treat for them, as well as us.
Yesterday, we thought we had a major problem on our hands; we opened the door to find ants climbing over the step and into Stan. It was particularly annoying because we had taken heed of the advice about this from our caravanning friends, Diane and Michael. They had told us they had caravanned in France and had the trip ruined by being infested by ants which got into all their food cupboards and took weeks to get rid of. So we had bought a modern type of ant spray and sprayed it on the corner steadies and jockey wheel of Stan the moment we arrived; of course, we had forgotten they could climb up the skirt of the awning! Anyway I, in desperation before they completely overran Stan and it became like a Hitchcock movie, grabbed our Dettol multispray (says kills 99% bacteria so why not ants?) and sprayed the step which killed them all and we haven't had any back since... phew! Hope it lasts...
Yesterday, we also had lunch with Degsy on the seafront at Sant Antoni about a mile from us and felt we were really properly holidaying. Amazingly, a lot of the restaurants have already closed for the season so it was quiet but nice. My sister Wendy will enjoy it there when she joins us next week.
Just as I said Steve was having an idyllic birthday, a huge gust of wind has blown down the main centre pole of the awning and Steve is rushing around trying to sort it out! Should have kept my mouth shut...
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