DEENERS

For fun we have taken to using the Spanish pronunciation of the English word dinner ("deener"); hopefully the Spanish are not taking up any of our bad pronunciations of words in their language -- it would for sure ruin it!

At any rate, we have had a couple of nice deeners with friends the past couple evenings. The first, sadly, was a farewell to our longtime friends Phil and Jane Kaiko, and their three girls Sophie, Nathalie and Isabell. Sophie and Meg were born a few weeks apart in San Diego, and because of the Cup on and off we have managed to live near each other ever since. However, on Friday they moved back to their home base of Perth, and many of us connected with the Cup will miss them dearly. So a gang of Kaiko friends got together for, at least for now, a last supper at a favorite family-friendly restaurant in town, Pizza Roma, where a family of four or five can eat and drink there way through the evening for only about 70 euros.

Last evening was clear and warm. Do they call it Indian Summer here in Spain? So we joined my counterpart in Alinghi, Hamish Ross (NZL), wife Sally, and boys Angus and Fergus (yes, they are of Scottish descent) for a frolick on the Puzol beach (10 mins from our urbanizacion) and a deener at our favorite beachside restaurant, El Nazaret.



Las familias Burns, Ehman, Kaiko, Ulvr-Green and Davidson at Pizza
Roma Wednesday evening.



Beachside on a warm September evening for tapas y paella with
la familia Ross. Foreground, left, is Angus Ross who turns 12 today.
Happy B'Day Angus!