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Quality Visitors

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Once in a while on this blog I will break away from my straight to the point: This is how you run a successful bar style and content, to try to give you some idea of just what it’s like living in the sun, instead of drizzle, fog, rain and wind, which is so frequent in the UK.

I will also from time to time give you an insight into how your quality relationships don’t become weaker, but instead grow stronger and today I’m going to talk a little about how wonderful it is to receive visits from your best friends.

I seem to remember that when I lived in the UK back in 1985, I used to get a lot of visitors to my house. Some of them were quality visitors who’s company was delightful, but I also had to put up with frequent visits from people, who came to borrow my car jack or my electric Fly-Mo. Also I used to get my fair share of boring or self-opinionated people, who frankly just did their best to stop me from enjoying my spare time.

Here on the Costa del Sol things are very different: the boring or tiresome people come to see me in my bar and spend their money there, something, for which I am so very grateful. They can’t pin me into a corner like they would if they were able to visit me in my home, so in the bar I listen to them with one ear and get on with my work saving my other ear for the many wonderful people that I also meet through my bar.

When you run a bar restaurant here in Spain, you only invite really special friends to your home, so in that respect it’s totally different form the UK, where at any moment a “cup of sugar borrower” could descend upon you shattering the tranquility of your home.

Here you get people who come to see you for an evening during their stay, usually calling you first to arrange a good time to meet up. Last night was such a night, as Russell who is a very good friend of ours, came to our Pizzeria and we were able to spend the entire evening together, talking about everything and anything and really enjoying each other’s company. This is what I class as a quality visit.

Russell lives on a farm in Devon with his wife Liz Jamieson, who is one of my very best friends and a brilliant webmaster, is also responsible for creating this blog, making it look and function so cleanly and efficiently and optimizing it in Google’s search engine, so that I get tons of people finding it. I just write the content and she does all the rest for me, so a very big thank you to Liz.

So you may loose the Fly-Mo cadgers when you come to live in the sun but you don’t loose your quality friends, as they come to see you especially and whenever they do you spend real quality time together.

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