I am currently "enduring" my enforced annual monthly sabbatical in San Pedro de Alcantara my second home, a part of the world I have been visiting for (I hate to say), over 30 years!!
An awful lot are said about the Spanish but I tell you what there is nobody I have met in the UK in the hospitality industry that could do what the chicos and chicas do on Guayaba beach. They do a 12-5 shift then shower and change then do an 8-2. Yes that is in the same day. And yes it is 7 days a week!! Oh I forgot they work 12-8 on Sunday with no night shift. So that's only a 74 hour week. Well that's do-able I hear you say but these guys do it on sand and in 85degrees at the least! Good news I know them well so I get a sneaky cepito every now and again.
The food is great it is cooked in full view and a friend I know who is a chef says it is the best Chiringuito food on the Costa!
So it's not all bad! However I have looked forward to Friday 12.30. Why? Cos that's when the factories shut! I have had at least 6 calls a day so its been a bit of a busmans holiday, however I have a better view and a cerveza in my hand compared to when I am in Tipton.
Anyway the reason for the post.
This year in Spain I have decided that I will not be such a lazy bloater as in previous years. So I purchased at large cost, 2 tennis racquets and Matt (13 year old son and I ) endeavoured to play tennis. Jeez at 7 pm it was murder, at 10 am it was murder, we haven't played as much as planned! So let's purchase mountain bikes I say so we can cycle every day! Good plan Batman ( I use the dark knight analogy as the new JB motor purchased just before hols has Been knicknamed the bat mobile by my employees.)
We purchased one second hand one and waited for El Corte Ingles to get a bike with a deal. Anyway last night we go on a speed boat with friends who have a doughnut that you pull behind the boat. Matt had a good ride so my turn. Looking very suave in my life jacket I enter the doughnut, the line goes tight, I hold on we pull away, next thing I know I do a reverse 360 that Tom Daley would be proud of as the cover rips and I end up in a jellyfish ridden Mediterranean!! Sore back but ok. So today weather not good and son persuades me to buy second bike - for me! Get it back ok, then Mrs B suggests we ride she drives to a bar for lunch. No problem lungs a bit bursting but just thought of Overgraduate training and felt next step Triathlon! coming back handlebars come loose so brakes upside down! I get to within 20 yards of the flat and brake, holding front brake too hard front wheel does emergency stop, JB does a forward 360 over the handlebars onto the Tarmac . Still hurting tonight, bruises just coming out. So. Just a side 360 to complete the triple. Thoughts of Olympics, triatholon and stunt rider have been mentioned. Let's see!
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