Celebrations & Excitation

This was one of those weekends where you need Monday off to recover. It started on Friday with the 19th birthday of Toño's godchild. Followed by a house warming party of our swim buddy Gambling Shark and his boyfriend Christian on Saturday (ingredients for the buffet were flown in from Barcelona). And today, we celebrated the 85th birthday of my father.

Despite his age, my father is still fit as a fiddle, though he had to cheat death several times during those 85 years. One reason for that is that he can't resist ladders.



This picture was taken the day before our wedding where he took care that the facade of the house is clean and tidy for the occasion.

Today we came together in the same courtyard to listen to the tunes of the village's brass band and have an apéritif with family and neighbours, which was followed by a classical Sunday roast in a fine restaurant.



Of course, today's dinner was rather humble after those festivities. We just had some roast beef with mango chutney.