The day started with a swim and at 0915 the pool was quite busy which was rather surprising but then again it is due to be the best weather day of the week and that was proven as by midday most of the outside chair were full with also quite a few kids who were general well behaved. We had to share Jennifer's swim goggles as Noel has lost his somewhere and need to get another pair. We did try a shop in the mall about a week ago but they were only interested in selling fancy expensive sunglasses.
A bagel for breakfast was the order of the day with the plan that later in mid afternoon we need to so some food shopping and then go for a burger in the Irish pub and so by 3pm after a morning of reading, listening to music and enjoying the sun we headed of to the mall. As we drove in there was a free space so we grabbed it, as usual the car park can be quite full ,and this put us in a different place in the mall. This change worked out well as we explored an area not seen before and there was a little shop selling swim goggles at 14 Euros so purchase made.
For lunch Noel ordered the burger and fries without onion and pickles and Jennifer the club sandwich and a couple of beers. The burger arrived and lo and behold there was onion and pickles on it so sent it back, with load of apologies from the staff. We enjoyed a very pleasant afternoon in the pub garden and then it was to do the shopping and we called for the bill. The waiter brought the bill and apologised for the mess up of the burger and they would therefore not charge for it, I cannot see this happening in the UK, very kind of them. We did our shopping and headed back to the apartment about 5.30 pm and rested pending the football that was on.
The house Tv has sky and Eurosport channels and I thought that the Arsenal game would be on either of these but not to be, O h damn and blast but then I noticed somewhere it was on Amazon Prime and so got the VPN connected and went to Amazon, it did not connect first of all, damn, so tried again and there we were to watch the game.
Arsenal against Real Madrid I really thought that RM would take them to the cleaners but the game was basically even but the difference was that Saka did some of his little runs and got knocked down in great shooting distance and this happened twice within 15 minutes and so Arsenal were two up against RM and Ancelotti looking most unhappy with his players and then to cap it off Arsenal scored another brilliant goal.
Following that we watched some news reports from the USA about the Trade Wars ( actually not a war but of an adjustment) as the US feels that they have been taken advantage of and quite frankly I think they have. Just about all Asian countries have benefited with almost free access to the USA market over the last 40/50 years and particularly China who is now very concerned as it could ruin there growth pace and cause massive unemployment.
There was also a program about the UK lack of control on Government spending overseas, what's a matter with these people, Yes come to think of it I know, they are all dumb and never managed or run a business…When we moved to Hong Kong in 1975 the Government apart from the Governor were all business guys who new about the role they had unlike politician who mostly know nothing and then jump ship and move to another party if they feel they will lose their job in an election, hence the growth of the Reform party. Ah well that's it for today
