A Chinese meal

We decided to treat ourselves to a chinese meal last night,our first choice of restaurant, was at Abaran, we got there around 7:00 but the place was closed so carried on to Cieza to find one there, the fist one we went into only did the menu del dia at lunchtime and the menu for 4 (Bec and Joachim were with us) was not impressive at 38 euros, a little further down the road we found another with the Menu for four at just under 30 euros ,excluding drinks--not what we were used too in Guardamar!
The salad was alright, but the rest of the meal was terrible,tasteless and hardly warm, we were the only people in the restaurant and the waiter went and sat at another table to eat his own food half way through our meal.,soooo.... we shant be going there again.
On the way home we noticed the place in Abaran was open they obviously dont open untill around 8 oclock. so will check it out before we go for a meal.

Amazing moon

We sat on the terrace last night to watch the total eclipse of the moon, bec and Joachim came over and we waited patiently with snacks and a glass of wine, because there was a lot of haze in the lower sky the eclipsed moon was not visible untill around 23.00 but it looked amazing especially through binoculars, The moon then started to show its self again,and it was certainly a sight to remember.

Cieza Market

We decided to go to Cieza and its market today, and it was very good with loads of stalls with a good variety of products, there must have been at least 30 fruit and vegetable stalls with lovely fresh produce, and very very cheap, potatoes were 30 cents a kilo, tomatoes on the vine 70 cents a kilo,large lettuce 3 for a euro, cherries and small plums 1 euro a Kilo, i would say it is as good if not better than Guardamar market.
We had a walk round part of Cieza after we had shopped and it is a lovely town with many of the streets tree lined and shady and quite a few pedestrian only areas.

Giant oven and mossy slayers

The giant oven works really well, Mary cooked a chicken, joint of pork and bread and it cooked them all beautifully.the wasps were not too happy though they had made a nest in the roof of the oven and when it got hot, had to make a quick exit,they were still looking to get back in the roof the next day. We have cleared the area now for the swimming pool to be constructed and it is due to be started in the next few days, the sooner the better as it is extremely hot now and a dip would be most welcome. relocating the 2 meter satellite dish was essential as it was in the middle of the garden so Joaquin and i built a tower on the end of the buildings and installed it on top of that.
As always in the the country there are loads of insects and many mosquitos so last night we plugged the electric mosquito slayers in under the gazebo.
sparks really flew, we could not believe the amount they annihallated over night, the sooner we get rid of the mosquito population the better.

Beeeaters in Blanca

We have moved into our house in Blanca! so have been very busy unpacking all the boxes and moving things round to as we want them, also have spent a good bit of time in the garden, tidying up, pruning and replanting pots,the first day we arrived we tried the barbeque out and had a good old meat feast, tomorrow we will try out the giant oven.
The bird life round here very prolific and last night while i was at the end of the garden looking over the river valley i saw a flock of around 10-15 beeeaters swooping catching their evening meal, although we saw alone one last week i the orange groves we did not realise there was so many around. The only other time i have seen a beeeater was when we were in Australia.