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Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Moody Seas.....A Small Light And Long Tunnel!

 Once again, the carrot was dangled and we were told that as soon as carnival period was finished we would go in to level one on the Covid restriction scale. If I´m honest I wasn´t really bothered about going in to level one, yes the restrictions would be less but there would nobody here to enjoy them so why not just leave us where are? As it happened we are still in level two, 6 people to a table and 11pm curfew, its not so bad.

I have started walking to Alcala. I don´t know whether its a midlife crises but I´ve decided I need to get fit, or at least a bit fitter than I am, either that or I have too much time on my hands, I don´t want to commit to either. The walk to Alcala takes me from Puerto Santiago where I live, all along the rugged coastline down through playa De La Arena and Varadero where the coastal path starts, and finishes in the square in Alcala. Its a lovely walk, mainly flat and the views are stunning. Its a good 5k walk, good for both the body and the mind.

Today, the sea was particularly moody and I found myself stopping every now and then to take photos of the high waves and the few surfers that were out.

I thought I would throw back today to my Mallorca days as just the other night I got talking to someone and it turned out that she had worked in one of the same hotels that Eddie and I had gigged in while living in Mallorca. The conversation only came about when I was talking about stand up paddle boarding or SUP in Mallorca last year, something I long to do again soon.

Eddie and I sang in the Playa Mar hotel every two weeks for two seasons while we lived in Mallorca. The resident entertainer was a Dutch man called Edward and at the end of our show he would set off fireworks from across the pool, all very showbiz, and the audience loved it.
During our show, Eddie would go off and I would sing a couple of songs alone and on one particular night whilst stood on stage giving it my all to Whitney Houstons I will always love you, I had a visitor! The most enormous bug I have ever seen (A giant locust or a Praying Mantis) had decided that my shoulder was a comfortable safe place to land and sit for a while. Like the consummate professional, I somehow managed to carry on singing and made it to the end of the song to a rapturous applause from the audience. shortly afterwards the bug flew away and I was left completley shell shocked, I´m not keen on small bugs let alone these prehistoric looking things that look like they should've died out with the dinosaurs!!

I look forward to the day when we can return to Mallorca and take holidays and being back to some kind of normality that was taken away from us almost a year ago.

Its a year since we had an almighty Calima here in Tenerife, we had so much dust from the Sahara desert that we all felt like we were all in Sepia. We had a Calima a few days ago, fortunately it wasn´t half as bad as the one we had last year!!

Apart from the Calima and a bit of cloud here and the there the weather is amazing.

Wherever you are and whatever the weather stay safe.
Until next time

H x










1 comment:

  1. We do that walk several times a week when on holiday to burn off the extra calories! Maybe you could get Steve and Eddie to do the coastal path walk on their video walkabouts, I'm sure the regulars would love to see it.

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