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La Noche De San Juan

Well! What a great weekend. Saturday night’s beach and bonfire party to celebrate La Noche De San Juan went really well. Anton had a few beers at our bar and then went to the beach ahead of us to set the BBQ going. When we arrived at about 11 pm it was burning beautifully and he was able to start cooking the meat we’d prepared in the restaurant, straight away.

We had ribs in honey and garlic sauce, sausages and chicken breasts marinated in lemon juice. The meat was accompanied by, tortilla (Spanish omelet, also made in our restaurant).

There was no shortage of booze to wash all the lovely food down with. One of the great things about Spain is, you can get a really nice bottle of wine for around 6 euros. I took 2 wines from our bar, Senorio De llano Gran Reserva (red) and Tierra Blanca–Cadiz (white). We also had Spanish Champagne (Cava) and for the children we took an enormous bottle of Fanta.

It was a marvellous evening, spent sitting on towels, on sand that was still warm, with good friends and good food, with the back drop of the Mediterranean lit up by a myriad of tiny bonfires and one or two not so tiny bonfires.

Firework displays erupted into the midnight-blue sky at frequent intervals all along the coast making a wonderful free show.

We all had a great time and crept home to bed at about 3 am.

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