23rd February to 2nd March, 2017

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Not a great deal to report other than sadly we seem to have lost Val’s camera which is very irritating as it had a lot of photos on it, though I did manage to get most of the good ones into the blog and have uploaded many into the cloud. We think we may have left it somewhere on our day out (see last post). Ah well, these things happen (as I keep trying to tell myself while still chuntering about it!)

We had been advised that a trip to the beach is a must-do activity, but not being particularly beachy people and definitely non-surfers we decided simply to go to a local spot called Potato Head (we still don’t know why) which is THE place to go to apparently and conveniently located in the hotel’s free shuttle service route. We didn’t reckon we could manage a whole day, so we went for the sunset and oh boy, was it good. (‘Oh no, not more sunset pictures?!’). I went a bit mad, but have really tried to pare them down to the best ones.

Potato Head is a restaurant and pool and you can hire a daybed for a fee and seems like quite a good party venue. The building itself was fascinating being clad in shutters of various kinds – very striking.

Once inside you get the feel for what is on offer by the throng of people in the restaurant, on the grass and by the pool…

And immediately in front is the beach with terrific waves crashing in.

Lots of people doing lots of things, though mostly taking selfies as far as I can judge!

A few random shots that don’t seem to fit into any other category…

The golden light as the sun went down was fabulous…….

And then there was the after glow that started like this…

And then turned into…….

And finally, the party was still in full swing…..

Other than that we have continued our care-free existence. We have tried some 10 pin bowling though not with huge success, we attended a ‘sunset to glam’ party in the bar at the hotel (very loud music!), we have visited many bars with some good live bands and guitar-playing songsters and kept up the exercise and Yahtzee.

What is especially pleasing is that Val’s Parkinson’s is behaving very well which was the main point of the trip in the first place. We can’t decide if it is the warm weather, lack of stress or not having to do anything if we don’t want to that is contributing the most or a combination of all three, but she is doing fantastically. In truth, it is also the amount of work she religiously puts in down at the gym that is also a great influence and an object lesson to all of us on how to deal with difficulties in our lives head on. Love you, Val!!

Ok, short one this time with lots of easy-to-look-at photos after the short book I gave you before. Next post soon – more temples!