Happy new year to all
Chaser 2
Yvonne Chapman
Fri 2 Jan 2009 18:31
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Yvonne and I have been back in Europe for over a
month now, Christmas and new year has come and gone. Its ffffreezing cold in UK
and not much better here. Feet hurt wearing these new shoe things, and clothes
seem so heavy.
We arrived in Madrid at the end of November, rented
a car from the airport to get us to our house. We only spent a few days in Spain
before flying to the UK to visit our growing daughter (shes pregnant) and
Yvonnes dad in Mevagissey.
It is cold, damp and expensive, everything costs a
fortune, heating, water, food, parking, public transport, you name it. It has
been so good to see Susie and Billy, Yvonnes Dad and brother
Stuart and Jayne aswell as Rob and his girlfriend Berny in Spain.
James our older son has flown in from Mexico collecting his Spanish girlfriend
in England on the way, they are here for the holidays too, so we've had the
whole family around us.
In a couple of days we fly back to the UK to
see Susie again and we'll be close by until the baby is born. We'll be visiting
Mevagissey again, Kent too, to see more friends and combining that with a London
boat show visit.
I'm flying back to Venezuela and Chaser
for 3 or 4 weeks after the baby is born just to check on things there, get
some rays and warm up again. Then back to Spain in March; Susie and Billy move
back to Spain then to build a new life there. Never a good time in a
recession, though we moved to Spain to live in 1992 another recession
period and we had 3 kids to care for too, still as we always
said, its a better place to be poor in, thats our opinion
anyway.
Venezuela and the Caribbean are good too, travel
they say broadens the mind, nothing is more true. Once upon a time I would have
loved to live in or around Mevagissey, a pair of wellies and a shotgun, a small
holding maybe, but not anymore. A charming place it is but not for me now, to
many tourists, not enough local character, too much rain and cold. Yes, nice as
these places are, there are better and we have found some, I'm sure there are
nicer or different cities and countries too that we haven't yet
visited.
Having the family around has been good, but they
have their own lives and do their own thing, but we've decided next time we'll
fly them out to see us, certainly a lot less expensive even if we pay their
flights.
Spain still has a lot to offer, we have met some
old friends and some of my ex clients, some of whom Rob has been working for,its
nice to hear good reports of mine and his work over the years. Yvonne has a lot
of friends in Moraira that she has met over the years in the fiestas, so its
been good catching up with the local news.
Television we certainly dont miss, especially the
new channels, doom and gloom or what? English TV, nobody praises anyone, its
aways been the same, no matter how good you are someone always says, yeah ok,
but he could do better. And if you do bad life is over! Living aboard
Chaser we dont have TV, we watch DVD's movies, series, comedy,
whatever, but little or no news, no soaps, and we really dont miss it or
need it. Someone recently (between Eastender episodes) said to me 'but dont you
get bored' , she had to wait for the commercials before I was allowed to reply,
though the answer was brief, because we can never get bored, if we do we move on
and visit somewhere else.
So now we're just waiting to see the new
arrival in Birmingham. Won't be long now, here are some photos of the family,
Mevagissey and Moraira.
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