 Having a laugh Taking the Plunge Sharon is continuing to recover from her illness. Her husband writes: Laughter really is the best medicine and there was plenty of that at the weekend when our daughter Julia and her boyfriend Alex visited the Campo. Sharon was busy in the days before, getting everything ready and doing the shopping. It’s a bit difficult to push a supermarket trolley and a wheelchair at the same time but, with a bit of effort and the odd bump, it can be done. When things get too difficult, such as when you have to get from the checkout to the car and the trolley is too heavy, you have to wheel the wheelchair so far, then go and get the trolley and wheel that past the wheelchair, then go and get the wheelchair – and so on in a kind of leapfrog. Eventually, you arrive at the car. The same technique has to be used at airports with the luggage trolley. It gets a bit lonely, though, for the person in the wheelchair, who sees the person who should be pushing the chair disappearing into the distance and has to hope that they will come back to fetch them. Things take extra time when you aren’t too mobile and so we were late at the airport to pick up the two visitors. Never mind, they were waiting outside on the pavement at San Javier when we did arrive and we were quickly off to an excellent tapas bar at San Pedro del Pinatar, recommended by the man in the pharmacy shop where we stopped briefly. We let Alex do the choosing and enjoyed longaniza sausages (both the white with anise and the red with paprika); little whitebait fish (although Julia didn’t like the little eyes staring at her); lean pork in tomato sauce, and half a dozen other tasty dishes. Then it was on to the big spa place, Thalasia, a short distance away. Sharon was in two minds about this, as she was worried about how she would get in and out of the pools. But there was no problem as there were plenty of handrails. The water is pumped in from the Mar Menor inland sea and is heavy with healing salts and minerals. It also makes you very buoyant, so Sharon floated about with no problems. There are a couple of peaceful small pools and a big pool with all sorts of fun things, such as heavy swan-necked showers that blast the tension out of stiff necks, bubble beds and underwater jets to ease painful backs. read complete >>>>>>>>>>>
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