Monday, January 29, 2018

Already planning for next year

Well we have really enjoyed our time in this house in Rotonda West and as always it takes you a little while to get in to the swing of it but overall its been a pleasant experience although the weather has not been to bad, the locals are complaining that its  not to good.
Noel knees were bit achy this morning and as there was also a high chance of a brief heavy shower we decided to forgo the morning walk and caught up on some paperwork, yes we still have to pay HMRC to allow the politicians to have their heavily subsidised food and booze in the houses of Westminster, Yuk.
The weather improved during the late morning and so we headed of to Public Supermarket to by some food and bits and pieces to cover us until we leave here for Clearwater bay area where restaurant life will take over for a while until we get home in mid-February. Decided to finish up the rest of the frozen prawns in sandwiches for lunch and then an afternoon sit by the pool which was quite high following the previous nights heavy rain. At 16.00 hrs, Catherine from the Houser Rental company came to collect us and take us to see a house in Roundwood Golf & Country Club, called Villa White Wash Pearl and apparently it is owned by a Chicago based neurosurgeon and immediately you walk in you can see its been decorated for somebody to live in rather than the current house which has been decorated for rental. The house is of a similar size to the current one but much better furnished and instead overlooking a river with alligators this one overlooks a lake.
The added benefits if you rent this house is free admission to the Country Club which has a very large pool and Gym and also access to a seafront club at Manisota Key so overall a much better proposition if we can get it. see link for more info
Villa White Wash Pearl
After the visit we returned home and discussed and other potential travel plans. We are still waiting to find out if we can get on the Silver sea Cruise from Vancouver all the way to Japan in September this year and so we are unable to make other travel plans around it until this is resolved.
Watched an old BRITISH film on Amazon TV last night called Ladies in Lavender with Judi Dench and it was a nice little film with a happy ending, so worth a view.