Long time no blog...

Hello all; sorry its been a long time since any Spanish blogs but after moving to La Nucía we have had to re-establish an internet connection and this has taken quite some time. We are also having post redirected and have changed banks, so many changes have caused considerable disruption and I am glad that we are doing all this in the summer holidays because if I was having to work through this I'd be whacked.

As it stands the exercise programme is back on track and I am getting some cycling in before the sun gets too high. I'm trying to get out every couple of days but this area we live in now is very hilly. No matter where I go it is pretty hard work either getting out or getting back! To cap it all the road upto our house from the main road has got to be a one in six. Cycling downhill to come home even has this sting in the tail. Furthermore the sun comes over the end of the Sierra Bernia near Calpe at about 7am and is immediately intense and hot. The days have been very warm for the last month or so. We've got some beach time in and the girls have enviably tanned skin if you seek such things. I'm happy being white but then I'm hardly a fashion icon. Jan looks healthy and we are doing our best to eat healthy food and not to drink too much red wine. We did reduce the stocks prior to our move though! One day we will crack open that posh bottle of wine that I've been saving till last.

On Tuesday Jess and Beth are flying to Manchester to go on a Christian Youth camp in Benllech on Anglesea. It is for ten days and we (Amy, Jan and I) are going to miss them terribly, I know. They are getting quite excited now although their new passports are stuck in Madrid and we will be doing everything in our power to get them couriered down to us on Monday. There have been a couple of attempts by the courier service to pick them up but a couple of departments seem to have got their wires crossed. If the passports don't arrive I don't know if the girls will be able to travel as they are going unaccompanied with a couple of lads from church. The oldest will be only 14. They are being picked up from Manchester by some swallow friends, Barry and Iris, who live half the year here and half the year there and who are helping to organise the camp in Wales. It's for ten days, so if anyone wants to see them you'll have to get up to Anglesea and find the Benllech holiday youth camp. They come back on Sunday 14th.

Watch this space for passport news!

Love to all

Pete