100 Reasons Why I Love Living in Manilva – Reason 3
The Sky at Night in Manilva Municipality
Starry sky at night in Manilva
I love looking at the moon and the stars at night as the skies are so clear because there is little light pollution. The more you look the more stars you see and I have even been lucky enough to see a shooting star and a UFO!
What do you love about where you live?
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100 Reasons why I love living in Manilva – Reason 2
The Sparkling Blue Mediterranean Sea
Sailing boat in sparkling blue sea in Manilva on the Costa del Sol, Spain
Similar to the blue skies and sunshine, seeing the sparkling blue Mediterranean Sea everyday is lovely and therapeutic too. Some days the sea is like a millpond, still and calm. Whilst other days you can see the “white horses”racing where the waves break out at sea.
Sometimes in the winter when there are storms brewing, the waves are large enough to attract the surfers and its fun to watch them riding the waves.
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Something strange happened to me last night. Whether it was a cosmic coincidence or something else I am grateful as whatever it was made me suddenly remember that I needed to take a picture of the moon and the stars for my blog – 100 reasons why I love living in Manilva, reason 3 The Sky at Night.
Sometimes I have a wonderful view of the Moon and Saturn from my front terrace but last night it wasn’t there so I went upstairs to my back terrace and was greeted by the sight of what looked like almost a full moon with the top left-hand corner sliced off.
Disappointed that it wasn’t a full moon I decided to NOT take a photo and went back inside!
A minute later my phone beeped with a text message so I went downstairs to see who it was from. It was from my wonderful friend Katie telling me “Lunar eclipse tonight 22.08” . I looked at my watch and it was about 22.10 so I rushed back upstairs, grabbed my camera and this is what I managed to take.
The Lunar Eclipse from Manilva, Spain on 25th April 2013
The Eclipse of the Moon in Manilva on April 25th 2013
Just a minute later it was gone! So thank you Katie for your text 🙂
The full moon in Manilva, Spain after the lunar eclipse on 25th April 2013
For more information on the Lunar eclipse visit – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2013_lunar_eclipse
For more information on Manilva, send me an email to lucy@barringtonhomes.eu and I will send you a free copy of my guide to one of the best places in the world to live.
Also if anyone has any tips on how to take a better photo of the stars and moon in the sky at night I would appreciate it as you cant see all the stars in the photos that I could see with my naked eye!
Saludos
Lucy
100 Reasons why I love living in Manilva – Reason 1
Blue Sky and Sunshine
Looking out at clear blue skies and sunshine most days as opposed to grey dreary skies really does make me feel happier and brightens up my day. I call it blue sky therapy as it really does make a difference to your mood.
What brightens up your day?
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Back in December I set myself the challenge of writing 100 reasons why I love living in Manilva. I will be publishing these reasons over the next few weeks in no particular order but some are more significant than others.
Do you love the area you live in? If so please share with us your reasons by leaving a comment below.
When I was of school age I used to love going to watch some of my friends perform in our school’s plays. I would hear about all the fun they had and backstage antics and see what an adrenalin rush performing gave them. I admired their courage and wished that I was brave enough to do it. I wasn’t brave enough though as I get very nervous and shake like Christopher Maloney from X Factor when any attention is focused on me.
Concerned that my children would be like me I invested in acting, singing and dancing lessons at Stagecoach Theatre and Arts School in Marbella and am so glad I have. It has opened up a whole new world of friends and opportunities for me as well as developing their skills whilst building up their confidence and self esteem.
I think we are particularly lucky that our nearest Stagecoach school is Stagecoach Marbella as all the teachers are excellent and very talented in their own right performing at various events along the Costa del Sol.
Every year since their successful 10th Anniversary celebration concert at Sala Fortuna, Hotel Torrequebrada, Benalmadena with Stagecoach Fuengirola and Stagecoach Gibraltar, they have organized shows at a variety of theatres along the Costa del Sol showcasing what they have learnt. This is not only a fantastic opportunity for the children to perform on a real stage with a real audience but a wonderful opportunity for the proud parents to enjoy seeing their children perform some of the great acts or songs from the popular musicals.
This Sunday 14th April Stagecoach Theatre Arts Schools will be presenting “Stagecoach Showcase 2013” at Marbella Theatre – Teatro Ciudad de Marbella at 19:00 hours. If you are interested in seeing the show, tickets are €8 and can be obtained by contacting Warren Webley at costadelsol@stagecoach.es.
If you are interested in enrolling your child to one of the Stagecoach schools in the area contact Warren Webley at the email address above or visit www.stagecoach.es/Marbella.html
Which activities do you like your children doing and why?
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