Back to old clothes and porridge

Home in one piece, with no problems at all. after a long sit at the hotel we were collected by a taxi and taken to the airport which was only about 10 / 15 minutes away. Airport is ultra modern, new shops, automatic passport readers, etc, lovely - we were checked in within ten minutes and had plenty time for a cuppa and to watch planes landing , etc, from the open terrace.

Our plane was 20 minutes late in arriving from the UK, but was turned round very quickly and we were only 15 mins late in leaving - then better than that the pilot made up on the way north and even landed 30 mins early - so he must have had a really strong tail wind.

By the time we collected out suitcase, RGB was pulling up with the motor so we had no wait and it was home and straight to bed.
Of course , as we reached the house, the heavans opened and the St Swithen's curse struck again with a whopping great heavy downpour.

And of course, after a cramp free week, we both suffered last night - so was it the long sit or was ot the lack of tonic ?

Plenty of work to do now to catch up.

SODS law once again

After all the hassle during the past week trying to get on a wi fi site, I found one about three hours ago, within the hotel !!! But not an official one -

Sun is out but not blistering as it had been, so we have been sat by the isnide pool for the past three hours waiting for the taxi to the airport, then hopefully our return flight by Globespan back to Edinburgh.

There are hardly any staff working here at the moment, only one in the dining room and one in the bar, BUT - lunch, once again bucked the trend and was edible.

The answer to the photo puzzle was - A BUBBLE !! being blown by a young girl in the apartment below us and as they drifted upwards Mrs. B. managed to time it right to make it look as though it was balanced on the tree top.


Time to go

Just passing time

Monday lunch time , and the sun has eventually come back out - weather clouded over yesterday so it was day by the inside pool and time to relax even more - food actually edible without having to be washed down.

Met up with a couple ( Ray and Chloe) and their daughters from Leeds, and found out how the other half can live here.

back in the Blue Elephant for a cuppa before lunch and then have to wait for the taxi and the trip home.

Nice to see the Mercat Bar featuring on U Tube, nice piece of video, well put together.

This is for Grant

• Mrs B saw this yesterday , not sure if she had been drinking at the time or if it was a UFO , or what !!!! Grant ?
  

Cool Pool Pics !!

Out for my usual cuppa having sat by the pool again this morning . We did discover thatthe sprinklers are ona timer and there is a set cycle - so we were all set and raring to go when the water went off.

has been a bit cloudy this morning , but I had my Web User magazine on hand to read - i have been buying it since Issue No 1, often pick up some we tips to help me but am not really computer literate enough to get the real benefits it offers.
Top pool is always busy, but the bar and snack bar are up there.

Wee bit cloudy at the moment but we hope it will clear up again shortly.

Out for dinner

9.30 p.m., back at the Neptuno, this time for my cuppa and Mrs B is having something to eat as the food in the "youth hostel" was not too clever. having said that I had the roast beef, minus the Yorkshire pudding, which was not too bad, frozen brocolli, and washed down with the all inclusive red wine . This was my first and last experiment in the hotel, from a wine tasters perspective i am sure that whoever tread it had verruas, or had kept their boots on !! Spilt some on the white linen which dissolved !!

Our friends left today heading back to he safety of Norfolk and some sanity - one little girl said that her dad was calling the place a Youth Hostel, rather than a hotel.

Not a lot to report -

Are we on U Tube - hope not

Back over in the Neptuno cafe for a quick cuppa and use their wi fi - Don Pedro Hotel is a nightmare, one PC on the dfront desk for all the guests, no wi fi, yet the little cafe's have brilliant service.

Thought we were being set up for U Tube this morning, woke up at 6 a.m. and could see and hear the water sprinklers on in the garden - as they were for about two hours.

headed up for breakfast about 8.45, tipping all the water from the few sunloungers at our little pool where we live, left my books, papers, towels etc ( just like the Germans do !!) and went for breakfast. Cornflakes, watery scrambled egg and toast.

Headed back to the sunbeds at 9 a.m. all set to get stretched out and the place was awash with water - everything was being totally drenched as the sprinklers had been turned back on. Rescued what could and got drenched in the process - then headed back to the reception to complain yet again - they must think we are a right pair. So another note has been sent to the Manager.
One of the other couples had four plates of soup each last night as nothing else was edible, and the man who has travelled all over the world said it was the second worst hotel he had stayed in - the worst being in a backwater in Africa.

Place is filling up soit should be fun in the dining room and bar tonight if they do not bring in any more staff.