Back from Calpe in southern Spain

 The holiday was booked although I was not ready to enjoy it.

Why ?

Well I was reversing the car out of the drive and there was a break in traffic going both ways and I flew out  there was an unmerciful bang.A car had been parked at an angle that I hadn't noticed it. My bumper caught it dead center and the floor of the car was bent. The other car just had 2 back lights broken.

So my car cost €1,250, New bumper and paint and fixing the floor.

The other car 2 back lights believe it or not €1,150.

The toughest thing of the lot was to listen to my son giving out, it was bad enough to have to suffer the pain of what happened. At least there was no injuries which would be a complete different situation.

When you have an accident report it to the police. When I was very young a car hit me and he said it was OK and he would pick up the tab, no need to report it to the police.

The next day I rang him with the price and he said "You didn't report the accident and I will not be paying you" I said that in fact I did report the accident. His face fell.

He changed his tune and paid for the damage that day, The police rang me a few days later the car that hit me had no insurance and would I like to testify in court? Lucky me.

Do you have a dash cam? If not why not ? The quality has improved so much. take a look at the dash cam footage on YouTube if you want to be convinced.

The staff at our hotel were great, from Romania, Colombia, Brazil and Poland as well as other places. There was a girl on reception who was speaking Dutch. I asked her how many languages she spoke and she said.English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Russian.

She goes to university when the season is over. I told her that I once worked in the International telephone exchange and a guy who worked there had 23 languages And he was fluent at them all. The way he could switch between different countries Chinese to Arabic and back to French. It was like watching a verbal juggler. As I said he was fluent with no pauses as he spoke. I left the exchange and I met him again years later. I asked him why with his skill he never joined the UN as a high functioning worker ? There was no pressure on me where I was.

Never a dull moment.