The Chronicle of Lomana: My happy birthday in the sea

Today, August 1 is my birthday.I am in my dear Marbella, near the sea, the sea that has been and is a constant in my life.I want to make a toast for life, for another year in which I feel plethoric, full of energy and illusion after such dark times, of uncertainty and fear that we have been able to overcome.A huge number of citizens are finally vaccinated, the virus will continue in its different versions, but we already know how to control it and we have lost the fear of the unknown.This morning, before breakfast, I have gone down to the sea, I was spectacular.The Sun was gently laughing on the waves that resembled silver tapes.Silence was a luxury.Presiding over our "magic mountain" that covers us to the Marbellíes.I do not know how to explain the spiritual and thanks to nature and God when I am swimming and looking so close, so majestically, that it makes me pray in a natural way by making the best of me.Back home and breakfast quietly, receiving hundreds of messages of love congratulating me, gifts and flowers, feeling fortunate and happy.Because I always say that being happy is a matter of will, to want to be, never letting life drag us with inevitable problems and sorrows.Always win the pulse.

Tonight I have organized a fairly intimate dinner with twenty friends in La Tirana, a restaurant that I adore.It is very chic and very special for the authentic.The typical garden of the old houses of Marbella is a variety of flowers and species from the south that surrounds you in its beauty and smell.Manolo and his godson Manolito are run in a way full of affection and authenticity with a meal nothing pretentious or snob.I am sure that we are going to have a great time, but, yes, with caution.Next week I will tell you who was and put photos.

An issue that I liked and surprised this week have been the statements of our queen's grandmother, Menchu Álvarez del Valle, deterring his granddaughter to marry the then Prince of Asturias.For any pretentious and arrivist.Hence my admiration.This lady was well known in Oviedo.He worked 43 years as a announcer on Radio Oviedo and Radio Asturias, being one of the most recognized voices of the Principality.Tremendously progressive and liberal, it gives me the feeling that not very monarchical.The arguments he gave to his granddaughter not to marry and be queen were of a great common sense: «You are free and self -sufficient with a beautiful job, do you know where you get?You are not educated to endure that life ».

Our queen, and that's the most beautiful and exciting, told her that she was right, but she was very in love.Given that you can no longer argue against even the "revolcon" that recommended.When love flood you you want that "revolcon" to be eternal.That is why and for many other things, I have a huge appreciation for Letizia, for that Asturian journalist who one day fell in love with a future king, and I am sure that with much effort, sacrifice and great will he has managed to be a great queen, educatingHer daughters wonderfully, having to endure stoically many criticisms of people who considered her an upstart to be a queen.From here, I send an excited and affectionate memory of Mrs. Menchu Álvarez del Valle.Rest in peace.