Hi friends, peregrinos and rellies
This month has been very hectic starting with a trip to Denmark using the little KA as the van was still in for repairs!!! We went to see John, Silvia and the family, as it was John and Silvia's 9th anniversary. John had been swimming recently and lost his wedding ring and they both thought it would be a good time to have a renewal of their wedding vows.
Their wedding had been a wondrous colourful affair in the forest at Dwellingup. Now it was decided that this renewal would be carried out on a beach at dusk.
The wedding dress and the grooms fancy purple shirt were brought out of the cupboard As I had been dressed in a Black Spanish Grande's costume and I was now short of the sombrero, I decided to dig out something different again and brushed up the pale blue seventies safari suit that I still have chuckle!!! I loved this comfortable suit, I had first arrived in Australia in it and it was already some seven years old then chuckle!
I thought I looked better on the evening but it was dark chuckle
The original vicar's speech and replies were found and copies printed and it was decided, we should all take turns to read parts of the Vicar's speech and of course John and Silvia to make the replies. The weather looked changeable so a sheltered part of Lights beach was decided on.
The time came and a great crowd of John and Silvia's friends arrived at the house and food appeared and covered the dinning table. After chatting, drinking wine and generally supping well from this, we all headed off in our cars, piled high with Champagne and glasses and numerous children to the beach.
This lovely beach has a steep dune at the back and rocks and pools a fairly big surf making that lovely sound and the sun was colouring the sky red as we arrived. The children soon decided parents were boring and best clothes or not, they would climb the dune and slide down its almost vertical slope. No amount of calling could get them away and soon they were left to have lots of fun. As it got dark the wedding candle was lit and others from it and passed around, the breeze had fun too chuckle, but some were kept alight and I found I had a small torch that could be passed around.
So John called all together and each person
given their part to read in the glow of last rays of the setting sun!
This brought us all together and made us all feel very much part of the ceremony.
The rings were carried on the original orange cushion. Emil and Maya were originally supposed to be carrying them, not wanting them to be lost in the sand, they were tied firmly on with ribbon, chuckle! Each was untied at the right moment when bride and groom said "I do" and placed on the wedding fingers and the bride was kissed.
We toasted the bride and groom by candle light with the champagne as the sun had by now disappeared behind the rim of the ocean!
Maisie was sat down in the only chair we had and was given her uke and she played two verses of 'Makin' Whoopi!' - cheers abounded as the Champaign flowed,
the happy couple called for the their children as glasses were packed away in boxes!
All the children were dragged from their huge sand slide and counted and we returned to the house to polish off the wine and the last of the food and bottle of Champers!!! Everyone agreed it had been a touching ceremony and great fun too!!!!
We had a great week and I managed to do a little walking and here are some of the photos taken.
The walk one morning back from Lights Beach was probably the best one.
I took a few photos but was unable to get out the camera in time when a rabbit came tearing down the path towards me! He was obviously spooked and very concerned about something back there!!! The path was wiggley with tight trimmed shrubs on both sides about half a metre high. From my advantage point on a slight hill I could see him all the way but he never looked up. He took the last bend at speed and then he saw me at about a metre away !!! He jumped into the air, putting tail where his head had been somehow reversing his direction and landed right at my feet as I shouted 'Hey!'
Sand flew over my legs as he now peddled for grip and made off back the way he had come, finding a break in the scrub, he vanished Chuckle! First time a flying Peter Rabbit has almost trampled me down! I was sure afterwards he had been looking at a big pocket fob watch and saying "Look at the time, look at the time!!!" No wonder he never saw me!!!
We had one day where we took little Benjamin to the local animal farm. To watch this little chap rush from one pen to the other was hilarious, he knows all their names and at home he gets out a big grown ups book on animals and can tell you the names of them all.
Grass is greener the other side of the fence------------------------------- This one is white and wooly
I'm NO Roo!!!!!
Maisie and I took the car out too and did a little sight seeing and walking. One day when I did a longer walk, she managed to get a game of lawn bowls at the Denmark club.
Maisie also has some uke playing and singing on her blog. John and Silvia were very busy with rehearsals for Easter shows and we were able to baby sit for them a little before coming home.
Returning home I collected the van and then we were soon treated to a huge storm!!!
I have never seen rain like it here!! In minutes there was 10cm of water flooding around the house and into the road and this was soon deep in flood water as the trees whipped and bent under the strain of the gusty winds and pounding downpour. Just a few kms away hailstones as big ad golf balls wrecked cars and patio roofs and windows so we considered ourselves very lucky. Just a few drops around our chimney was the only thing to mop up for us. Two days later I noticed a house with a sunken garage as I walked. This had a tide line across the top of the garage door! The boat on the sloping drive had floated up off its trailer and there had been two cars and all the chaps tools in his garage!!! Power was off for sometime but by putting our frozen food in the gas caravan fridge and the van fridge we never lost any food. However, we had no internet or phone for nearly a week afterwards!! Farmers have been badly affected with fields of lettuces and other vegetables ruined and we will all pay dear for that! Thousands of cars are going up for auction due to terrible hail damage in the car yards, and many new cars were wrecked!
We went to a band concert that Josie was in but sorry I forgot the camera so no video or photos taken, we had a nice time. The band were very good with Josie playing some great trumpet solos too!
With all this going on I was hunting for cheap flights to Spain and eventually found a ticket to Madrid in the first week of May and returning in late June. Now I have to get my bag sorted and I keep throwing out things to get the weight down! My routes have been gone over and printed. I am still walking with a rucksack all the time and hoping the body can do the track!!. I will be taking a train from Madrid and starting my walk from Cordoba about 2 days later. I am hoping to meet some of my old friends but as far as I can tell, few can make it walking with me. The first part is to walk to Merida a hard section as far as I can find out. After a short rest in Merida I shall miss the next part, as I have walked the Via del Plata before, and take a bus to Zamora. Here I hope to start again and walk into Portugal, Bragancia, Verin then over the mountainous border to Spain and Ourence. I will most probably walk from here although I have done it before as the Via del Plata comes through here! If all goes well, I will then take transport to Leon and from there cross the Camino Salvador to Oveido. This is part of the mountain range Picos de Europa that I saw snow-capped when walking the North Camino. I'm hoping they look warmer by the time I get there chuckle. A little more detail of the proposed trip is on my Blog Mozarabe.
Our Wedding anniversary was on the first of April but that’s a new month so I will tell you about that next month!!
Best wishes to everyone
Abrazos
Michael and Maisie
This month has been very hectic starting with a trip to Denmark using the little KA as the van was still in for repairs!!! We went to see John, Silvia and the family, as it was John and Silvia's 9th anniversary. John had been swimming recently and lost his wedding ring and they both thought it would be a good time to have a renewal of their wedding vows.
Their wedding had been a wondrous colourful affair in the forest at Dwellingup. Now it was decided that this renewal would be carried out on a beach at dusk.
The wedding dress and the grooms fancy purple shirt were brought out of the cupboard As I had been dressed in a Black Spanish Grande's costume and I was now short of the sombrero, I decided to dig out something different again and brushed up the pale blue seventies safari suit that I still have chuckle!!! I loved this comfortable suit, I had first arrived in Australia in it and it was already some seven years old then chuckle!
I thought I looked better on the evening but it was dark chuckle
The original vicar's speech and replies were found and copies printed and it was decided, we should all take turns to read parts of the Vicar's speech and of course John and Silvia to make the replies. The weather looked changeable so a sheltered part of Lights beach was decided on.
The time came and a great crowd of John and Silvia's friends arrived at the house and food appeared and covered the dinning table. After chatting, drinking wine and generally supping well from this, we all headed off in our cars, piled high with Champagne and glasses and numerous children to the beach.
This lovely beach has a steep dune at the back and rocks and pools a fairly big surf making that lovely sound and the sun was colouring the sky red as we arrived. The children soon decided parents were boring and best clothes or not, they would climb the dune and slide down its almost vertical slope. No amount of calling could get them away and soon they were left to have lots of fun. As it got dark the wedding candle was lit and others from it and passed around, the breeze had fun too chuckle, but some were kept alight and I found I had a small torch that could be passed around.
So John called all together and each person
given their part to read in the glow of last rays of the setting sun!
This brought us all together and made us all feel very much part of the ceremony.
The rings were carried on the original orange cushion. Emil and Maya were originally supposed to be carrying them, not wanting them to be lost in the sand, they were tied firmly on with ribbon, chuckle! Each was untied at the right moment when bride and groom said "I do" and placed on the wedding fingers and the bride was kissed.
We toasted the bride and groom by candle light with the champagne as the sun had by now disappeared behind the rim of the ocean!
Maisie was sat down in the only chair we had and was given her uke and she played two verses of 'Makin' Whoopi!' - cheers abounded as the Champaign flowed,
the happy couple called for the their children as glasses were packed away in boxes!
All the children were dragged from their huge sand slide and counted and we returned to the house to polish off the wine and the last of the food and bottle of Champers!!! Everyone agreed it had been a touching ceremony and great fun too!!!!
We had a great week and I managed to do a little walking and here are some of the photos taken.
The walk one morning back from Lights Beach was probably the best one.
I took a few photos but was unable to get out the camera in time when a rabbit came tearing down the path towards me! He was obviously spooked and very concerned about something back there!!! The path was wiggley with tight trimmed shrubs on both sides about half a metre high. From my advantage point on a slight hill I could see him all the way but he never looked up. He took the last bend at speed and then he saw me at about a metre away !!! He jumped into the air, putting tail where his head had been somehow reversing his direction and landed right at my feet as I shouted 'Hey!'
Sand flew over my legs as he now peddled for grip and made off back the way he had come, finding a break in the scrub, he vanished Chuckle! First time a flying Peter Rabbit has almost trampled me down! I was sure afterwards he had been looking at a big pocket fob watch and saying "Look at the time, look at the time!!!" No wonder he never saw me!!!We had one day where we took little Benjamin to the local animal farm. To watch this little chap rush from one pen to the other was hilarious, he knows all their names and at home he gets out a big grown ups book on animals and can tell you the names of them all.
Grass is greener the other side of the fence------------------------------- This one is white and wooly
I'm NO Roo!!!!!
Maisie and I took the car out too and did a little sight seeing and walking. One day when I did a longer walk, she managed to get a game of lawn bowls at the Denmark club.
Maisie also has some uke playing and singing on her blog. John and Silvia were very busy with rehearsals for Easter shows and we were able to baby sit for them a little before coming home.
Returning home I collected the van and then we were soon treated to a huge storm!!!I have never seen rain like it here!! In minutes there was 10cm of water flooding around the house and into the road and this was soon deep in flood water as the trees whipped and bent under the strain of the gusty winds and pounding downpour. Just a few kms away hailstones as big ad golf balls wrecked cars and patio roofs and windows so we considered ourselves very lucky. Just a few drops around our chimney was the only thing to mop up for us. Two days later I noticed a house with a sunken garage as I walked. This had a tide line across the top of the garage door! The boat on the sloping drive had floated up off its trailer and there had been two cars and all the chaps tools in his garage!!! Power was off for sometime but by putting our frozen food in the gas caravan fridge and the van fridge we never lost any food. However, we had no internet or phone for nearly a week afterwards!! Farmers have been badly affected with fields of lettuces and other vegetables ruined and we will all pay dear for that! Thousands of cars are going up for auction due to terrible hail damage in the car yards, and many new cars were wrecked!
We went to a band concert that Josie was in but sorry I forgot the camera so no video or photos taken, we had a nice time. The band were very good with Josie playing some great trumpet solos too!
With all this going on I was hunting for cheap flights to Spain and eventually found a ticket to Madrid in the first week of May and returning in late June. Now I have to get my bag sorted and I keep throwing out things to get the weight down! My routes have been gone over and printed. I am still walking with a rucksack all the time and hoping the body can do the track!!. I will be taking a train from Madrid and starting my walk from Cordoba about 2 days later. I am hoping to meet some of my old friends but as far as I can tell, few can make it walking with me. The first part is to walk to Merida a hard section as far as I can find out. After a short rest in Merida I shall miss the next part, as I have walked the Via del Plata before, and take a bus to Zamora. Here I hope to start again and walk into Portugal, Bragancia, Verin then over the mountainous border to Spain and Ourence. I will most probably walk from here although I have done it before as the Via del Plata comes through here! If all goes well, I will then take transport to Leon and from there cross the Camino Salvador to Oveido. This is part of the mountain range Picos de Europa that I saw snow-capped when walking the North Camino. I'm hoping they look warmer by the time I get there chuckle. A little more detail of the proposed trip is on my Blog Mozarabe.
Our Wedding anniversary was on the first of April but that’s a new month so I will tell you about that next month!!
Best wishes to everyone
Abrazos
Michael and Maisie
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