Things that make me smile: The alternative list

[roig cat]

Well it's Winter, the forum is a little quiet and I have a day off work today so I thought I'd post a list of things that make me smile when on holiday in the area. Depending on your "wave length" you may not "get" all of them!

In no particular order;

1) The Bimbo van
2) Eroski chocolate truffles
3) Mallorcan beds, suitable only for Mallorcan people.
4) Sweaty cyclists eating at Tolos
5) Buying a book at the airport, and finding the same one at the villa you have rented
6) Hearing "littlePrayer" by Madonna on the car radio (again)
7) Lidl Lasagne
8) The pink sun loungers on Alcudia beach
9) The large cairn on the Boquer valley walk
10) Pony Pisador
11) The "clown" on the main road between the town and the port
12) Log burners, log not burning!
13) Mallorcan women in knee length boots and jeans, I'm in shorts.
14) Foul smell when entering Eroski
15) Cheap wine in Lidl
16) The need to always know where the fuse box is!
17) The cats on the bin at the end of the Cami de Campanet
18) Villa equipment, always something not working
19) A drink at Bar Mallorca after walking the Siller pass
20) The unguarded drain on Cami de Marina
21) The cat who let's you stay at their villa!
22) Having to work out the TV, DVD and Sat TV cables- oh and the batteries in all 5 remotes need changing.

Happy holidays

[Mark]

23) Not buying a book at the airport as you know there will be at least a dozen at the villa you have rented, when you have arrived and explore the villa they are all in German

[pollensafan]

24, Watching the man blowing the sand and rubbish ect- into the road on a windy day. Only to see it back where it started a few minutes later .

[Rosie34]

[QUOTE=Mark;90484]23) Not buying a book at the airport as you know there will be at least a dozen at the villa you have rented, when you have arrived and explore the villa they are all in German [/QU

In a similar vein - wanting to watch a tv programme but the last people had changed all the channel settings to German ones

[lovemallorca]

14) Foul smell when entering Eroski

Unique only to the "new" Eroski, as the other branches don't suffer from it. Why they think that the smell of hospital mortuary will make their latest fish offer more appealing, I will never understand.

1) The Bimbo van

As for the Bimbo bread van -With such fab fresh bread around, whoever buys a loaf of Bimbo? Ask any of the villa cleaners what food always gets left-behind from the welcome packs, and it is always top of the list!

[roig cat]

Hey, I like a toasted Bimbo!

[Sparky]

Originally Posted by roig cat

Hey, I like a toasted Bimbo!

Do you have that with a steaming hot Bonka? .

[gers1873]

brilliant post rc and well thought out

25. gun toting guarda cival telling you your parked too close to square on market day when you've been parked there outside your apartment all week 10 streets away

26. waiter telling you "i make this especial sangria for you seer" when its obviouly out of a eroski carton

[gers1873]

Originally Posted by roig cat

Hey, I like a toasted Bimbo!

i like it too rc toasted with pate

[debz1]

Great thread...this one could run all winter

No 11... Always see the clown and think, Why?!

[roig cat]

How did I forget Bonka coffee!

2 more:

Finding out Roger Federer works In Cellar la Parra

The Ros y Hijos tanker near the old town..... I always wondered what line of business Mr Ros and Mr Hijos were in until a said it to my husband who pointed out that Mr Ros was in business with his sons!!!!

[sws97sdg]

Originally Posted by debz1

Great thread...this one could run all winter

No 11... Always see the clown and think, Why?!

Thats an easy one Debs, if someone told you a villa was next to the clown, you would know where it was!!

[sws97sdg]

22) Having to work out the TV, DVD and Sat TV cables- oh and the batteries in all 5 remotes need changing.

It always takes me days to work out how to turn them on, why! at home you dont!! Mind you, the instructions how to operate them is nearly always scribbled on the back of a fag packet, in code! And why do they never have Spanish TV, that must be free to air, I dont want to watch Emmerdale while in Spain, but it would be nice to catch up on local news and weather!!

[sws97sdg]

Agree with 3, 9 and 13, but 14, is it just me but or is it the smell of the drains you like, when the sewage works was between the port and Habitat I used to love the smell as you walk past (thinking about it is probable just me and I shouldn't have shared that with you )

[roig cat]

Hi SWS, 14 was a sarcastic smile, my smell fettish is the washing powder aisle, oh and coal tar shampoo!