We’re into the hours countdown phase of this holiday! This time tomorrow, we’ll be boarding our Jet 2 plane back to Manchester.
Over the fifteen years of visiting Lanzarote, we’ve always tried to improve the next one that follows in whatever way our budget allows. This time, we took a gamble, and it paid off big time!
We had got quite accustomed to the frontline villas over the past few years. Expensive but offering much of what we desired for a peaceful holiday with sea views. But we decided to try something different this time. We hired an apartment above the main promenade in Playa Blanca. The views are stunning and for most of the twenty days we’ve been on port-watch, watching the comings and goings of the ferries and fishing vessels. We’re quite experts now on what goes on here!
Sadly, as I write this final update, packing to go home has already began. Beside me are the two suitcases filled with stuff we leave here for the next time. I will meet the storage boss in the morning at 10:00 am and say goodbye to most of our possessions for six weeks, when we return for Christmas.
The apartment is smaller than a villa, and of course it doesn’t have luxuries like a swimming pool or jacuzzi. But it makes up with an elevated view that can’t be bettered! For the first time in all the years of coming here, we contacted the agent on the second day of arriving and booked the next available slot for three weeks. That will be May 2025! That was the soonest we could get due to the apartment’s popularity.
As I mentioned in a previous ‘Just Chat’ post, unfortunately I got a bug of some sort at the end of the first week which got progressively worse. A trip to a local doctor was needed and I have a bag full of stuff to take. It is helping, though the annoying throat liquid (keeping it polite) is still coming up. At one point on this last Saturday, I thought I was going to die. I couldn’t breathe and I couldn’t stop coughing. I had to sit in front of an air conditioning unit trying to lower my body core temperature and at least give me a little more air to breathe. Jane had one finger on the phone dial to ring for an ambulance at my say so. It was a close call and thankfully she didn’t need to. Today, it’s much better, though there are still coughing bouts as the throat liquid decides to come up!
I am disappointed with how much work I got done for the website this holiday. I really wasn’t up to it. In case you’re wondering, the template I use for ‘Just Chat’ posts is a simple text page and therefore it’s easy to make these posts, whereas the entries for the other sections are a lot more complex.
I have sat with the pen every day. The first speaker advised me to call the sessions ‘the pen’ to make it easier for them! As I write this, I have transcribed 25 sessions for the next ‘Lanzarote Sessions – Series 7’. I can’t wait to see what you think of them. I think they are quite good messages.
Although of course I don’t want to go home, I am looking forward to spending some time in my office on Wednesday afternoon. In the morning, I have to relocate an external mains socket off the side of my tool shed in readiness for a second new shed being delivered and assembled next week. I hope it rains a bit when we return. Why? So it stops me doing gardening work and gives me more time in the office to put in the new planned changes.
The Envoy’s membership system has to come back for the new ‘RAW WFSIW’ section for envoys only. This is where the Envoys will be able to read all of the WFSIW sessions that have not been published. So hopefully the entire series 7 will be available ahead of being fully published.
That’s enough for now. The next update I’ll be able to do will be from the office and probably later on Wednesday. I do hope your week upfolds to be a good week for you.
My next job is to close this computer down, dismantle my temporary office, and pack it safely into the storage suitcase until December. We’ve two packs of bacon left in the fridge, and I’ll be making us some bacon butties later. Nice!