Tuesday

Date 8-8-2006 Tuesday
From Paul, again.
We both went to Turre, me to go onto the internet and to get Elayne some more flip-flops (€1-80). I failed but Elayne got her flip-flops. We then called in at Lighthouse Properties and spoke with Jodie, catching up on Gill and Jodie’s visit last week to Aberdeen to see Gills’ Dad who has cancer. He sounds to be OK at the moment bur they have moved him into fully sheltered accommodation. Elayne and I then visited an English book shop called Bookworms in Mojacar to replenish Elayne’s mountain of reading material.
We had a nice cooling paddle in the sea with the intention of going to Vera to look for a tyre stockist. We need to get the car’s front wheels tracked and to put a new tyre on the front off side (Spanish off side). I’m not sure what all this will cost. The brand new spare is a ‘get you home spare’ so we are not able to do a straight swap.
As we left the book shop Pam from up in Taberno phoned (thank goodness for the mobile) to say that she had managed to purloin the services of a topographer to mark out the boundaries of our plot. I felt that we needed to do this now, before we pay the remaining 90% of the monies for the land up there. We are going up there to meet them all at six o’clock this evening. Pam says also that she has an aerial picture of the site.
Up at Taberno we met up with a really nice young man who is really a surveyor but is able to read map property boundaries as well. With him and Pam & Bob we walked round the whole perimeter of our plot of land. Blooming heck it’s big/huge. There are demarcation stones laying about in little cairns and occasional stones that have a yellow stripe on them denoting the boundary. It was a really good exercise and whilst we were there it rained a little and we saw and heard a thunder storm further down the valley towards the coast. Afterwards we all retired to the Taberno taverna and had a good drink.
We are going to meet up with Pam and Bob on Sunday at Taberno for the last night (of four) of a fiesta. There should be lots of music and fireworks etc.,
So far, up at the plot, we think that we have seen the following birds. Either Griffon Vulture or Golden Eagle, Red legged grouse, Thompson lark, Hoopoe, a Roller (so called because it rolls out of the sky) and a Wheat-ear. I will try to get a book of Andalusian birds. More pics tomorrow, I seem to have left them at home dhhhhhh!!!!! sorry.