Tales from Taberno

Date 23-7-2006 Sunday
Went to Turre to see if we could find any cyber cafes open on a Sunday, none were. Went on to Mojacar and found the same. Got more provisions from the Supermarket and the hardware store and then had a long cool paddle in the sea. Drove up to Mojacar old town and walked to the lovely little bar, the one you may have seen in an earlier picture of Elayne sitting outside of, for a drink and tapas (lunch). In the back of this bar I found four slot computers that we could use for 1 euro for half an hour. Business all done and emails answered, on line, we then came back to this lovely air conditioned villa and wallowed in the pool for a long while to cool off.
In the evening we went up to Taberno and visited our plot (well it will be on the 15th of August when we visit the notary in Vera to fully sign up and pay the balance of the purchase money over to the sellers solicitor). We worked out with a compass that the existing ruin points actually south east and this fits the direction that we should have the house for the best of the sun set/sun rises, and also it fits in with the sympathy of the lay of the land as a perfect and ideal combination.
We then went over to Pam and Bob (pre-arranged but still hooting the horn a quarter of a mile out to announce our arrival) and the four of us went for a fabulous dinner at El Rancho’s at a near by village (steaks and chicken done on a open fire) followed by ice cream and coffee at Paco’s bar in Taberno. Sitting outside a bar at ten o’clock on a warm evening is brilliant. Bob and Pam drove us back to their house where we could see the whole of the night sky, with no light pollution at all from anywhere, what a splendid sight, I do hope that we never take any of it for granted when we move up there. Bob said that he will now get hold of our ‘captured architect and builder’ to arrange an initial meeting to discuss the out lines of our ideas for the house, what fun.