Tales from Taberno

Date Tuesday 25-7-2006
Went down to Gills for our contract of tenancy so that we can go to the local town hall for our Empadronamiento. tomorrow We talked to Gill, Berto and Jodie about buying a car so that we hope that we will have a good deal with out any nasty unexpected problems. All three are so helpful and happy to assist and advise on the complexities of doing things here in Spain, it’s a really good and secure feeling to have them on our side. Gill has prepared a sack of bed linen for us, although with the excitement of the car we left them all on Gills settee. We went back to the car place and agreed a small deposit that will secure the car for us until we can transfer the money over to our Spanish bank account, probably next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Jeanne and Graham Chadwick came up to see us together with their Granddaughter and a friend from Birstall who are both on holiday. It was really good to see them again and to know that they are safe and well after their long drive down from Santader, they were very brave and tenacious to do what they did in the way that they did it. They have bought a town house in El Pilar which is north of Sorbas. They will be staying with Angie until they have had some building work done on the house. After Debs, Ivan and Ollie have been we will ring them and go down to see them.