11:00am: trip to the Saturday market at Playa Flamenca. The
aroma of slow roasting pollo flowed
through the bustle of market-goers and men shouting fruit deals at us in
Spanish made it all the more authentic. Unfortunately, it wasn’t twenty minutes
until mother decided a breather was needed (just an excuse to people-watch I
think). We stopped at one of those café-on-wheels and I sent mother off with
specific instructions to get a bottle of water and a hot dog to share. Three
minutes later she returns with two sangrias. That’s all. Two sangrias. “I’m
sorry darling, I know you said water but we simply can’t be in Spain and not
have sangria!” Jolly mother and parched me.
13:00pm: leaving the market and we spot oranges the size of
planets. Mother hovers for a little while, inspecting, then nods to the man.
Man begins to place oranges in a bag but is hastily interrupted by a firm ‘stop’
hand in the air; “NO! No, I shall pick them!” and the poor man hands her the
bag and bashfully backs away. I’m not sure mother’s adjusted to the
go-with-the-flow Spanish lifestyle yet.
14:00pm: found ourselves heading for the outdoor mall… again.
Just for essentials though… we are certainly not the typical holidaying Brits;
landing on foreign ground and instantly searching for shopping centres and
burgers.
We parked in the (free, clean and spacious) underground car
park. Somehow, whilst in mid-conversation with me, mother manages to open her
car door at the exact moment a poor unaware twenty-something girl walks between
our car and the car next to us. A yelp. Then a gasp from mother as she
splutters out apologies and ohmygod-areyouokay’s in English. Lovely Spanish
girl smiles and reassures mother she’s alright (in Spanish). I let mother absorb
the shame while I collapsed in fits. The next thing mother said was quite
bizarre; “Dear me, I thought that car felt soft! It was actually a person!”
Mother now knows to look before whipping the car door open. May
have to sacrifice the comedy for the safety of Spanish girls.
Lots of love from the pink-sunset-balcony,
Charlotte-Elizabeth xoxo
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