February 23rd and it’s my lovely wife’s 50 something birthday………born in 1960, first to guess how old she is gets a gold star.
Started with a cup of tea and quickly moved on to a cracking little village in the hills for a lazy lunch.
The sun was shining and a guy quietly strumming a guitar in the background. We’re not sure if he was just there for dinner or was part of the staff…………..or maybe he was just playing for his lunch.
We ordered a beer and white wine and asked for the menu. The lady spoke no English, so she brought out a menu blackboard in Spanish only.
An English pair next door ordered a couple of tapas in fluent Spanish, so we asked for a translation and ordered half a dozen tapas and crossed our fingers. Long story short we ended up with a beautiful selection of mostly fish and calamari dishes. I wanted to indulge the birthday girl in a fancy, expensive lunch and long story short we got 2 glasses of wine, 2 beers, 2 coffees and 6 plates of tapas for…………..14 euros ($20 aus)…..I am sooooooo generous !
We met a cracking couple a few days ago who are travelling around Europe for 6 months and they come from Amanda’s home town of Huddersfield, so we hit it off really well. Anyway they joined us for drinks and we had a lovely afternoon.
We ducked back to buy some bits and pieces we needed and went for a walk along the beach then wanting to carry on with my expensive birthday we went to our local restaurant and ordered a bottle of wine for dinner and I subtly mentioned it was my lovely wife’s birthday to the waitress.
So 2 hours later we’d had 4 plates of great food (gratis) thanks to the waitress for Amanda and a bottle of wine for the princely sum of 8 Euros.
Now I am not by nature particularly stingy, but today I couldn’t spend money if I’d tried.
So Happy Birthday Amanda and may you have many, many more healthy and happy ones to follow x
I rTravels 
Oh he really spoiled you amanda!
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Happy happy birthday Amanda. Tom and I will share a toast to you tonight in Yamba (heading down today). Looks life you are celebrating every moment of your year of travels. Miss you both xx
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Thank you 🌺
We are, having the best time.
Hope you are both well.
Lots of love to you both xx
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You know me Denise….spoil, spoil, spoil. Nothing much changed since Clouds ha ha
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Happy Birthday Amanda, 🥂🎂🍹
sounds like you are having a fabulous time on your travels. xx
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Thank you Linda , having a ball x
Hope you are well.
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Happy birthday Amanda. Sounds like fun was had by all. What a great way to celebrate your birthday travelling the world. Awesome.
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Toasting you from Teton Village, Wyoming where it’s snowing ❄️ Have been telling our English friend who’s flown over to join us about your great adventure! I have to find a map every blog I read – am amazing journey. Best wishes for a wonderful birthday day and a fabulous year with lots more most of day lunches and challenging excursions. I’m going up the mountain today (to meet the skiers for lunch!) but getting plenty of exercises walking the shops. Love to you both X
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Lovely to hear from you Kerry. I bet you are enjoying a little break from the heat. I’m sure you are loving spending time with Andy and making the most of every minute
Love and best wishes xx
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