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January - February 2020
  • Tim Lynette Wilkins
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  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020
    Sun went in over lunch

    Brilliant start

    January 31, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    All the arrangements worked perfectly and we are here safely. The taxi arrived on time at 3.30 and got us to the airport on time despite the M11 being closed and needing a long detour around the countryside. The assistance people at stanstead met us at the taxi drop-off and took me in a wheelchair (I wasn't complaining!) all through bag-drop, through the priority passport control and to the front of the line for security, then all the way to the gate and out to the aircraft steps. All done with perfect charm and friendliness. The Ryanair people on the plane had no idea what to with my crutches but managed to put them on the luggage rack, and a minivan was already waiting at the bottom of the steps at Jerez to whisk us to the front of the queue at passport control, get our cases in baggage reclaim and out to the front of the taxi queue. I couldn't have asked for a better service at both ends. In fact I think I'll carry crutches now every time I fly!

    The apartment is just as it was, and the weather is 20 degrees and with patchy sunshine, so lunch in a tapas bar just around the corner was lovely.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020
    Finlays favourite square for playing with a football

    Settling in

    February 1, 2020 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 16 °C

    After the journey yesterday, a long good nights sleep last night was very welcome. Today a trip to the supermarket to get stocked up, but first breakfast in a cafe next to the market. Last year it was closed for refurbishing (actually complete gutting and redesigning) so it was good get back and find that their churros and chocolate was as good as always. From the market we bought a huge fish called corvina. It's very popular here but I have difficulty finding the name in English. I think it's a type of sea bass called "meagre" - anybody know better? Anyway with the head and tail cut off, it just fits in the oven, on a bed of potatoes, and onions, garlic and parsley, doused in lemon and dry sherry. In the Afternoon a couple of hours in the sun and listening to the Barnet match on the radio. They won. I still have a sore ankle but I can walk for a while before it hurts and I have to rest on the sun lounger!Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020
    Penalty - and saved!

    Sunday football

    February 2, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Went to buy my Sunday paper and was delighted to find that my paper stand has discovered the Sunday times. A couple hours in the sun doing the crossword then off to the football. Previously I would walk the 20 mins to the stadium but this time I took the bus. Xerex deportivo are in the playoff places again - another promotion would be their fourth in five years, (or is it five in six years!) having only been founded in 2013. It was a really good match and Xerex won 3 - 0, and also missed a penalty. The other Jerez team, Jerez industrial, are also doing well, clear at the top of the table, although two divisions lower. Maybe I can get to one of their games too!

    The spiral staircase is from our living room up to the terrace. One of my targets in doing the physio on my foot was to be able to get up this to sit in the sun ( and get down again!) I'm pleased to say that I seem to be managing ok!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Climate change?

    February 3, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Yesterday and today it's been hot - 23-24C in the shade and really hot in the sun - too hot for us! The locals say it is unusual just like spring weather in February. We only brought a small amount of sunscreen and are using it up quickly. It's ironic that we came here for some warmth and sunshine and are avoiding it in the middle of the day. Then the temperature plummets to 7-8C in the evening and we put the heating on in the apartment. The forecast is for it to remain warm, sunny and dry for the next fortnight.
    Out this evening it was still very mild. The weather apps say 14C but it was really pleasant sitting outdoors having a sherry after a good tapas dinner.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Quiet couple of days

    February 4, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    The last two days we've pretty much stayed in and just enjoyed being here. It's been 23 or 24 degrees and beautifully sunny although a chill wind got up yesterday and through the night last night, and today the temperature has dropped to 18. It's been quiet, apart from the noise of people in the street below the apartment, the only noise has the clacking of the storks on top of the church at the end of the street. There seem to be two birds there and they are really big so I think must be about time for them to fly away and go wherever they go in spring and summer.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Janet arrived for the weekend

    February 7, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

    Janet came on the morning flight ( it was an hour and a half late) for the weekend. The weather changed yesterday afternoon so this morning it was heavy black cloud and quite chilly. Thankfully by mid afternoon the sun came back and it's warmer. And a flamenco guitarist was playing outside the sherry bar at the end of our street so all is well again!

    The picture is of the one that hangs on the wall of our bedroom and is so very Spanish!    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Tasting at Diez Merito

    February 8, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    The morning started with thick fog, and it looked like it had rained. Breakfast on chorros and chocolate , followed by a tasting a at a bodega called Diez Merito, that we haven't been to before. The lady doing the tour and tasting give us, at our request, a tasting of different quality sherries of amontillado and oloroso so we could compare their cheaper wines (6 euros a bottle) against the better ones ( at 15 euros a bottle). We found that the more expensive were better, but not by much, and certainly not by the difference in price. We bought the cheaper amontillado and then this evening tasted it in comparison to the one from Dios Bacco that we'd bought a few days ago. Pleasant surprise, we preferred the cheaper Diez Merito one. This afternoon the heavy clouds broke up and were able to sit on the sun for a while.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Lunch in the sun at Fundador

    February 9, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    The day started a little overcast but brightened up and I walked down down to buy a paper. By lunchtime it was nice and warm and sunny and we walked across the city to have lunch in the courtyard of the sherry bodega Fundador, where we had lunch this time last year and really enjoyed it. The food was excellent again. A lie in the sun in the afternoon on the roof, and a dinner of chorizo and lentils rounded off a pleasant last day with Janet.Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020
    Interior of the flamenco centrePlaza outside the museum

    Oranges

    February 11, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    The amount of walking that I'm doing here is certainly helping my foot. Today I walked for a hour and a half inside most of the walls of the medieval city. It gets swollen and sore afterwards but at least I'm not now using crutches or a walking stick except when I get tired - I still intend to use the crutches on the journey home in a few weeks, and get all the help I that I can through security and the rest of the queues!

    The city harvests all the Seville oranges around the end of January. Last year we were just in time to catch some to take home for marmalade, but this year they were all gone - disaster! Then in my walk today I passed just one small square where they had missed them so managed to pick some, they were even low enough down that I could reach them easily. I'll check again before we go home to see if they are still there in case we need more.    Read more

  • Tim Lynette WilkinsTravelerJerez 2020

    Night out in Jerez

    February 12, 2020 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    We went out to eat at a very old favourite restaurant and on the way back stopped for some sherries and flamenco. Jerez at night can be very pretty, I'm not sure why , maybe it's the colour of the street lights. Or maybe it's the sherry!Read more

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