Picasso ??

Saturday 10^th March

Another cold sunny day. No work on house today. After breakfast, we drove to Beltran to order a bit of chipboard for the gap (15 cm x 70 cm), and a piece of blanco 45 cm x 70 cm for the hidden bit of the corner cupboard that would not be seen, but would stop stuff falling out. Even with pictures on the digital camera, it was difficult to explain why we wanted these 2 pieces of chipboard…..I think they thought we were just showing them pics of the kitchen for them to admire….muy bien (very good). We got our chipboard eventually and a few extra screws etc, and then drove to Fuengirola via the alternative route ….loads of rally cars driving towards us at what seemed like rally speeds up the winding mountain road, so it felt quite dangerous, particularly on the bends !! The weather had warmed up by then on the coast to 20 C.

We stopped off at a huge kitchen DIY store we discovered last time we went this way, and got screws, fixing plates and brackets etc for fixing cupboards and the worktop, and also stopped off at a swimming pool shop to check out mosaic tiles….much cheaper @ 19 € per square metre …..only problem we only need 0.75 m² and the minimum order was 2 m² .

On to the market, where we spent a couple of hours. J picked up a few books and I got a nice art deco porcelain figure in Picasso style for 10 €. It is hand made in Spain by Axia ….looks like value to me, but it may only be cheap replica tat ….any views ?

We then went on to the Swedish wifi internet café to post blog and catch up on e mails, and also had an English breakfast and carbonara. J went to beach to sit and read, and I caught up with her at 4 pm. We then walked around the port for the first time, and back home by about 6 pm via Mijas……no rally cars but it seemed the rally had been along this road.