Friday 18-8-2006

We went over to Vera with Gill to see our solicitor Isabel Lopez today to collect a copy of the transfer of the land documents that we all signed on Wednesday. It is called an ‘Escritura De Compraventa‘ (Deed of dealing), we get the originals later as mentioned the other day.. We now want to have them translated so that we can see the names of our neighbours and what it all says about the land, it should be quite interesting. We of course know the salient points of it already, or we hope that we do.
After the winds and sand storm yesterday we came home after some shopping, to start sweeping up the outside area of the rental and the pool area. It’s amazing how much sand we actually swept from the balcony, the outside washroom and the patio. The wind that we had yesterday is called a ‘Scirocco’ which is a hot desert wind from North Africa. It pebble-dashes the backs of your legs if like we did, you choose to walk along the beach during it L It’s a good job that ‘the pool man’ came last night, because the pool was a real mess with twigs, leaves and sand floating in the bottom. Anyway he calls twice a week so it is all nice and clean again now. There is still a breeze today but it’s quite warm again now, with lots of sunshine and a few clouds. Last night after dark we had a drink at the taverna in El Pinar, collected our mail from the post box and then we sat out on the roof under a super bright and still night sky, star gazing. The wind drops here at sunset as it does in the UK so it was very calm and quiet up there.
This evening we walked around Los Gallardos, at little town about ten minutes down from here and we were invited to supper at Isobel and Eric’s, across the road, next Friday. Isobel is the lady writing the book about embroidery.
I’m not sure if we have already posted pictures of the outside of the rental, so here are a couple to show the extent and abject poverty of our living situation around the pool, which of course we only use for drinking and washing our clothes ;-(((
BTW Any photographic requests, as long as they don’t offend the sensibilities of our adopted countrymen and women, will be given due consideration by ‘the management‘ of this blog. (That means Elayne;-))