After some four weeks during which both sets of
Grandchildren and their parents stayed with us here in sunny Lagos,
the last of them departed back to the UK last evening.
Before their return there was a quick visit to the South Bar
in Lagos Marina for a round of farewells (and in Nick’s case a few lagers).
During this interlude, Jessica entertained everyone with a spot of disco
dancing.
Whilst Ellie was more focused on ensuring that she was well
feed prior to the Easyjet flight from Faro to Gatwick.
The weather was quite windy for the last week, so this
restricted the sailing activities. But Alvor was as ever a hit, and the rest of
the time was spent on the beach, or at a wonderful spa & pool complex which
is quite near to the marina. It has great facilities, is cheap (not a
word often used in Lagos),
has excellent food and drinks and is very safe. Here I was able to indulge
myself in some grandchildren hurling (in to the open air pool I hasten to add),
and Sarah also had the pleasure of the odd aerial assault into the water.
Meanwhile Jennie kept a safe distance in the shallow end of the pool and Nick
watched on from the security of the bar area!
It has been great fun having all the visitors. The boat is
now eerily quite and both Jennie and I are wondering what happened! It all passed
so quickly.
We are scheduled to stay here in Lagos until the end of August. However, I am
not sure I can suppress the travel bug within me for that long! So after a bit
of boat maintenance, and some R&R, we will head off East and mooch
our way into the Mediterranean. The plan then
would be to spend all of the month of September cruising around the Balearics,
before heading back to Gibraltar in Mid
October. Jennie is also pressing me to make a quick return trip to the UK in
early October to catch up with everyone before we start the Blue water Rally on
the 17th October.
We are also hoping that our youngest daughter (Mandy) and
her boyfriend (Phil) will find time to come and join us soon as well as
catching up with my brother (Ian) in September. Various other friends have
indicated that they would like to visit us, so we are awaiting to hear from them as to when they
would like to come on down??????
Meanwhile we will just have to keep on enjoying ourselves!
