Semana de Turismo

Good Friday: Town Beach! - 28degC!

(Ruth recalls that in Uruguay that is the official secular name for Easter Week). This week we have have mostly been amusing and supporting Chloë who has now just set off for Gran Canaria to do her Masters fieldwork!
We had some gorgeous daytime sun for the Spanish Semana Santa break. C arrived on the evening of Maundy Thursday - Bank Holiday! (Once again we had a great service from Airport Transfers, who provided a solo ride for her direct to the Dunas Club for 14GBP, where we were waiting in La Luna with tapas). She had left Amsterdam in a temperature of -2!

Next afternoon we went to hear Dave and Ronnie play at Pescaditos. The town was heaving with many local families out in the sunshine, and some anti-social parking to impede cycling, but a very jolly atmosphere everywhere! This continued into Saturday, when B & C rode up to the Flea Market at Campenario and she bought a bag for 2 euros to her great delight. Over the week we ate out at favourites such as Caracoles, the original Chinese Wok, La Tasca, Avenida and Fogalera.

We heard music from Erik at his new Brisamar venue, Rock Café with the brilliant Italian lead guitarist - Julio, Rock Island and (quite new to us, although we are very familiar with musicians Ronnie and Chris) Boogaloo, which is Dutch - owned so gave Chloë a chance for a chat about things Dutch including the word for "horse-pee" to describe one of the beers!

In spite of the sun we avoided the big beach over the festivos, but did spend a glorious Easter Sunday at Galera Beach on the edge of town, where we knew we would hear Murphy Be Good, see some body-painting by Tony and have a great view of the bay. Murphy was late (forgot the hour-change) but had with him a Brasilian percussionist, and Tony was bored and wanted to drum up business so Chloë  got a free paint job! It was a long hot afternoon, and amongst other delights there was impromptu dancing from more Brasilians and a British belly-dancer.

 

More of a Domingo  Santana!

Not such a happy time for a British semi-resident couple whose yacht was in the marina near Mojo (Niki and Johhny's boat), nor for La Cueva de Lobos in the premises opposite Antigua del Puerto, which suddenly closed for good this week. (We can recall at least eight restaurants there over the years:- a site of doom! Still it will soon be another (doubtless Italian) venture. Watch this space!)