Snowballs in Spain
Someone commented, when we were debating about coming out here, that they wouldn’t come over here because they like the seasons in the UK. Well I can not remember who it was but see the pictures of the snow this morning. The ground is still quite warm at our altitude (850mtrs) so the snow has almost gone down here (15-30hrs) now but the mountains look very dramatic in their snow coats, above about 1000mtrs.
We spent the morning watching the tennis, the men’s semi finals from Melbourne and said that after the tennis we would decide whether to sit tight or go shopping (in emergency we would be warm and OK for at least three days, so no pressure). We went to Albox, all the roads are OK because they are lower than we are. We shopped and then wanted to replenish the petrol and the gas, on the way back, at the petrol station in Taberno. When we got there, there was a power cut and none of the pumps were working. We changed the gas tank and will go back down tomorrow to top up the petrol.
No sight of the builders today. The cold, wet and snowy start today must have made them go to work somewhere else, and who can blame them. The temperature only just stayed above zero last night but now it is a balmy 3.8 degrees, almost tropical again.
Muchos apologies! The builders have just turned up in a lorry with a crane on the back. They have brought some more reinforcing mesh and steels for the ceiling.