Dia de Andalucia

Wednesday 28^th February

We awoke early, just in case Ricardo or Tommy appeared as promised. As there was no sign of them, we planned a full days cauchoing and painting. I scraped the bedroom ceiling before driving to my favourite Ferreteria on the other side of town, but it was closed …..odd, but they must close on Wednesdays. I then drove back to another ferreteria , but it too was closed, as were most businesses on the Poligono. It was dawning on me that it must be a Public Holiday, reinforced by the light traffic.

I checked up on my web page listing Bank Holidays and Saints days, and sure enough, 28^th February is Dia de Andalucia which we thought had been on Sunday. Without caucho, we had to rearrange the painting schedule, concentrating on the bedroom walls rather than cauchoing the ceiling and painting it as planned.

We also made up the table for the mediterranean blue terrace set , and celebrated before going out. We dined out at one of our local Chinese Restaurants …excellent meal of spring roll, special fried rice, half crispy duck with oranges, and beef chop suey + bottle wine, all for 20 €…!!