Tales from Taberno

Date Wednesday 26-7-2006
Another scorching lovely day. We swim in the pool any time we can and especially when we return from anywhere and we are hot and sticky, we go straight in the water. Sometimes we swim first thing in the morning, just as the sun is rising above the trees opposite and before we go out and then we also bask in the cool water at midnight watching the glorious stars.
This morning we set of to get our Empadronamientos from the Office Municipal at Los Gallardos (a small village near the motorway). The young man who deals with these spoke a little English, thankfully, but advised us that as we are staying at El Pinar we should register up at Bedar village Municipal Office. So we drove upto Bedar (we wanted to visit the village which is about 8k above El Pinar, but hadn’t had the time yet, so this was good excuse) Bedar is another little white village set up on a mountain top and is very pretty. We drove to the outskirts of the village and walked on through to find the Office Municipal in Plaza Mayor (Mayors Office also). This young man did not speak any English so for some of his questions we were at a total loss and standstill. We got him to phone Gill at Lighthouse Properties who acted as our interpreter, bless her. When the process was finished and he had taken copies of our passports etc he indicated that we should return again tomorrow to collect the documents. It just happened to be market day in Bedar so we browsed as we made our way back to the car. We also called in a café and had cheese omelette and baguette for breakfast, what joy.