Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Tuesday 24-10-2006






Last night at dancing , Pam (our friend from Lighthouse Properties) gave us an folder in which was the draft plans of our new house, according to Chema (our new architect). One drawing showed his interpretation of what he thinks we want and the second drawing showed another option in a different sort of configuration. We still like the format of our original ideas, so with a little tweaking here and a little more tweaking there, we should have the final plan for him to go and present to what’s left of the Albox Municipal Planning Department. We are not going to hold our breath on this one, because the organisation sounds to be in total chaos.
We have been to Antas and Albox this morning and returned (after a pit stop for water for us and petrol for the genny ) to the caravan, where we are this afternoon sweating in tee shirts and shorts at about 24 to 26 degrees. It’s a glorious day after the warm but strong winds of yesterday.
I have just calculated, with the aid of a map, calculator and ruler, like I do, that the mountain top observatory that we can see west from here is about 47k away ( about 30 miles). Therefore if our field of vision is that distance for three quarters of our 360 degree view, outside the caravan, we can see approximately 1300 square kilometres (502 square miles) of landscape and mountains. Not bad for a back garden view.
The pictures are of Pip enjoying the early morning (07.45) sunrise this morning, and of Mondrono, which is our site backdrop, so to speak. Also we have found an almond tree (not one of ours) that thinks that it is February already.

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