Today has been a big day on our route to a house in Taberno. We are now Don Paul and Dona Elayne Fellowes (landowners), proud owners of 4.5 hectares (or nearly 54000 square yards of beautiful almond orchards with a ruin set on a picturesque mountain side.
The land owners’ friend John, who has power of attorney for his friend (and who happens to live in Bishop Auckland near Durham), our solicitor Isobel, together with Gill, Bob and Pam all met at the notaries office in Vera for the handing over of the monies and the signing over of the property and the land to us. It turned out to be a nice occasion because John is a real nice and likable Irishman who has 20 hectares of land and also lives in Taberno. We all adjourned to the café in the church square after the signing ,for a drink to mark the occasion. There you go, one step nearer our dream home in the sun.
On Friday we go to pick up copies of all the documents that we have signed today from our solicitors, whilst the original documents go to the Spanish equivalent of the central land registry office to be recorded and officially endorsed. We are told that they will be returned in about two to three months time but ‘as no body works in August’ it might be four months.
Then on Monday we go with Bob to try to find two static caravans, one to live in and one to sit next door to house our possessions. We were starting to be a little concerned because we have not heard anything about our possessions since they left East Keswick exactly four weeks ago today. However, when we were in the bank this morning we had a call to say that they had arrived in Alicanti. We told the chap who rang to store them for a little while and we will ring him when we are ready to receive them.
Today’s pictures are of our celebratory drink in the church square in Vera (from the left Pam, Dona Elayne ,John (rich with our brass) Bob and Gill) and then a little gecko type of fellow that was on the patio where the other one was yesterday (note the different markings and back feet)
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