I did the blog and visited Currency Direct to transfer more cash from pounds to euros. I then went to Cajasur (our Spanish bank) to ask them to have loads of ‘readies’ ready for us for Friday, to pay for the caravans. I got in bother by saying Elayne stayed at El Pinar doing women’s things the other day, so Elayne stayed at El Pinar and……………., eh and………………got her self ready for when I came home so that we could go to our solicitors in Vera. Now I’ll be in further bother for not noticing that she had scrubbed the top of the television with domestos, or something.
We arrived at Vera about quarter past twelve. We then went with Karen (she speaks the best English in the solicitors office, mother comes from Liverpool and she lives on Vera Playa) to the notary’s office in the centre of Vera and arrived about ten to one. We then sat and waited in this frenetic and hot office/waiting room, which was full of animated noisy excited mainly Spanish people all waiting to see the notary for something or other. There must have been some sort of a system but it took us an hour and a half to get to the front of the queue so the notary could read our wills, check every detail against our passports etc and then for us all to sign the documents. Karen said that this was a quiet day and the Fridays are three times more busy and even more wild than today. Anyway our wills are now made and are going to be sent to Madrid for registration and then will be returned to us at some stage in the next three or four or five or six to eight weeks as complete (this is normal). One has to retain a sense of humour with these things but people like Karen must spend an awful lot of time just waiting around in offices like this. Hey ho.
We then said goodbye and thank you to Karen and then Elayne and I bought some lunch and went down to Garrucha beach area and ate fresh baked crusty rolls broken open and filled with sliced cheese and ham, all washed down with pure orange juice, magic. We paddled of course. Garrucha beach is quite strange in that it has very good sand and clean clear sea water but it is directly opposite the large shipping port. The very large ships bring stone and gravel into Garrucha to satisfy the infrastructure demand of the building and development in the Almeria area. A ship that we saw set sail was under a Panamanian flag bound for somewhere to repeat the whole process again. From previous pictures you may have seen that there are always two or three ships waiting offshore to dock and unload. From a bystanders point of view it was interesting watching the ship put to sea with the attendant tugs and pilot boats fussing around until it was clear of the harbour.
As we were making our way back to the car we noticed that some fishing boats had just landed their catch so we went to the fish market to see what they had caught, we took pictures of marlin, sardines, crabs and many other types of fish. We arrived back at El Pinar about half past seven after agreeing that it was not really a bad way to spend a nice Tuesday in September, we could think of worse thing to do.
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