We are now the proud owners of , what in camping fraternity circles is know as, ‘a genny‘, or generator to our more urban and less agricultural readers. It’s a really nice little thing in bright yellow livery. It weighs in at 42kgs and will produce 2000watts of power for us when we are in the caravan. It has two socket outlets and an overload trip out and I think that one can even charge a car type battery from it. Compared to what we have seen in builders merchants etc so far, it is such good value that we are thinking of buying a second one as a back up and an additional power unit. It will be quite interesting seeing what will and what will not run together from them. For instance it will be verboten for Elayne to want to make a cup of tea whilst the iron is on and the hair dryer is blowing it‘s head off. We paid by card for this genny today so one supposes that the Spanish government will have 16.5% of the value. I almost feel as resentful as the locals about that although I did not offer to pay in cash. It has a two year guarantee and it has a 12 litre tank so it should run for quite a while between fills of petrol. I remarked to Elayne that had we bought this in the UK one would have got a sixty seven page manual but only three pages would have been in English. The manual for this machine has twenty eight pages and not a single word of English. Fortunately we have owned a little Honda compressor before so we know something about them.
We paddled and had tapas with a drink and then we came back to El Pinar for a siesta, a swim and chill out an hour or two. It is still quite hot here (28-30) and has threatened to rain for about three days now but within a few hours of the clouds starting to form it all reverses and the sun comes back again. We are told that it can take a week or so to work it’s way up to a frenzy and have a good bout of rain. On Tuesday evening it turned really nasty and we thought we were in for a real bucket full, but by morning it was back to sunny normal once more.
If all goes well we are aiming to leave El Pinar on Thursday next week. The cats are delighted at the news.
We hope to have the caravans on site on Tuesday so there is nothing stopping us after that.
PS: Pictures now recovered for Tuesday.
2 comments:
Fantastic news!
FYI Next Tuesaday (12th)La Vuelta (the spanish version of the tour de France) is going from Almeria to the Observatorio Astronomico de Calar Alto......during the stage there is a sprint at Tabernas......so you may find your paddling and tapas schedule jiggered by road racers!
(You may of course be up at Taberno watching your 2nd spanish home being delivered!)
Taberno is about fourty k north of Tabernas, but if we do get a chance we will see if we can see the stream of cycles shoot past. I once saw the UK Milk Race pass work at Pool. Half an hour of police motor bikes and the two minutes of bikes.
Mum watched a bit on Spanish TV the other night.
M&D XXX
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