It's now 17th January and it's been a wet and soggy New Year! Rain and thunder like we've never experienced before! It's brightened up a lot in the last 2 days so we've got our fingers crossed!
We've been trying to get our tv fixed after the Christmas Day Massacre! We found a Motorhome dealer in Seville who could do the job (it's factory fitted onto a bracket - very swish!) They wanted to charge us €1176.00 - not even gold plated at that! In the end we went to Media Markt ( a bit like Currys!) and bought a Monitor / TV for €199.00 Much better! It doesn't fit on the bracket at the moment and we can't play the van media system through it but we can work around those problems!
The campsite had a lot of problems with the wi-fi system and we only got it back in the van on Tuesday this week.
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January was an awful month weather-wise - not as bad as UK obviously but as far as Spain is concerned it was catastrophic! The area we're staying in had 3 years worth of rain in one month!!! That's a lot of rain! There has been a lot of flooding in the region.
We didn't do a lot all month - spent a lot of time watching TV!
The highlight of the month was Burn's Night - January 25th - we had a wonderful evening with a traditional Burn's Supper in the restaurant organised by Trevor and Elaine - our resident Scots! Musicians were flown in from Scotland for the evening - Jock the Box on Accordian and Duncan Mackinnon on pipes ( bagpipes and border pipes) Rex joined them with his Bodhran and we all had a great time!
The campsite owners have come up trumps yet again! There's a small gallery / mezzanine over the bar and they've kitted it out with sofas and tables and chairs, a computer and book shelves for us to put any books we want to swap - only for campers use - it's very swish! The "girls" now meet there every Monday afternoon for coffee and a natter!
We've also started to have quiz nights on a Wednesday which are proving popular - around 20 people each week turning up - some of us are taking it in turns to set the quiz.
There are more people on the site now than there were over Christmas with some Dutch and Germans staying too - most of them only stay a few nights - the core of the campers are still us long-stayers!
We woke up on 4th Feb to very high gusty winds - looked out of the window and couldn't see one of our tents! Went outside to investigate and found it had tried to go for a walk!! It was still anchored by 1 peg but even the heavy duty pegs had been pulled out!Luckily it was the storage tent and not the kitchen one - we keep the bags of dirty washing in it - amongst other things and I had visions of walking around the site and finding our dirty underwear scattered around! However we were lucky and nothing had been scattered! Some things were very wet but it had actually stopped raining by the time the tent disappeared so most things were dry!
It didn't take us too long to get it all back together and nothing was damaged - even the tent was OK. Those tents were a good buy from Decathlon!
