UK Bound

Our eldest son arrived back at Montesol on Saturday having brought a friends 5 door Pajero over from Margate for them, he'd started out the previous Thursday, early lunchtime.  Really nice to see him

He's been taken a few weeks out back in England and was coming home for Christmas but his plans have changed, he is now going to Las Vegas with Alex last week in November, luck sod, returning home here 13th December - Bob comes out on the 23rd - should be a nice little Christmas for the four of us - our first time here in Spain. We're just trying to figure out how we can get our Turkey over here from Hubert's Happy Turkeys in Elmstead Market LOL. This will be the first time in about 16 or 17 years we won't 'ave had one from there, ahhh - any idea's how we can get it out leave me a comment - we can't fly it it's brown bread

Nuestro hijo left for the return journey to the UK yesterday in our right-hand drive Mondeo, he's keeping it in England. There is very little point bringing a r/h drive car to Spain (see my previous post about bringing British cars to Spain).

We spoke to him last night and he has made good time, stopping in Bordeaux overnight. I've just given him a quick ring, a wake-up call, but he's up, raring to go and says he should be in Calais by 14:30.

The driving through Spain and France is so incredibly different to that in the UK. Hours of carefree driving without incident or traffic jams. The amount of traffic on the roads over here, compared to the UK, is amazingly less. However they do hide the speed traps in Spain unlike those in the UK, so if you are doing any motoring over here be very careful. They fine you on the spot too and you have to pay the money there and then

J and I are off on Friday 20th

Would Now be a Good Time...

...for West Ham to declare themselves insolvent?

It looks increasingly likely that West Ham are going to go down this season and if we don’t beat Hull it could very well be that we will be too deep in the mire to claw our way back. Beat Hull away and this post may become academic.


Visually (not on paper) we look to have a good team (too good to go down as Scott Parker put it) but does that visualisation make realization?

Someone's Having a Giraffe

WEST HAM have told Rafa Benitez that Carlton Cole will cost him an incredible £20million.

It is the Sun so it must be Micky Mouse eh?

Montesol from the NE Peak

Took These Pictures Just Now, It Was 22 Degrees

Click on any of the images to enlarge them. Scroll through the first picture to get a real feel of The Urbanization Montesol. Our house is far top left, the harvest gold one in image 3 with the ray of sunlight shining on it. The second picture will show you the villa in a little more detail. Scrolling through image four gives you a sense and experience of the tranquil countryside (el campo). 

Remember we have a house for sale on Montesol: - ring us on +34958958142

West Ham's Dynamic Duo - Our Glamour Boys

Robert Green and Matthew Upson both trained on Thursday morning with England in Doha on Thursday ahead of Saturday afternoon's glamour friendly against Brazil.

The West Ham United duo made the seven-and-a-half hour flight on Wednesday arriving late in the evening local time before travelling to the team hotel. The pair, who both are thought to have a good chance of starting the match this weekend, were then put through their paces along with the rest of the squad the following morning.

Having been sent off against Ukraine last month, Green missed the final FIFA World Cup qualifier against Belarus through suspension. With David James absent though, he will hope to earn a recall and win his ninth cap in the process. Upson has 17 caps for his country and is in line to potentially partner captain John Terry with Rio Ferdinand injured. - Article courtesy of West Ham's OS

Some questions to ask... 

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Curbishley - Je ne regrette rien

In a recent interview Alan Curbishley stated that he had "no regrets", I understand what he means by that but it is still a little sad to think that his boyhood dream was to play for the mighty Hammers (which he accomplished) but then to go on to manage the team for it all to go pear-shaped is a little sad.


What is very interesting though, he said in that interview with Sky Sports: "I think it's not just about Alan Curbishley, there's some other things going on at West Ham - I had a two-year contract left."


"there's some other things going on at West Ham" - Wonder what they could be? Care to hazard a guess anyone?

I was asked if I could see an end to our - West Ham's - present troubles

Straumar’s moratorium (suspension) on the paying out of creditors in ‘full’ (that never usually happens in these cases [paying out in full] I know, but being forced to sell and pay out) comes to an end 11/12. I think that I’m right in saying that they are currently managing a 1.5 billion dollar portfolio, so our ‘little’ club to them is small potatoes, especially if the - ‘Remember, it's not a lie if it makes us money’ - duo of Sullivan and Gold get their way for circa 40 million. But something happening soon after – if not before the moratorium date? I don’t think it will.

Even if we are sold I think Zola will be kept on at least until the ‘new owners’ settle in. How well we’ll be doing in the table by then, I feel, will have a massive influence on whether we survive in the top flight or not. If the settling in period (of the hypothetical new owners) potentially takes us past January there will be no money available in January. Unless of course they are footballing people and really understand what it means to go down, get relegated.