We were up before the builders arrived today (very unusual). We had arranged to meet Dario at 10-30 in Albox to go with him to choose tiles for everywhere in the house. We set off early at 9-00 so that we could reconnoiter for an hour in the hope that by the time we met him we might have some cohesive ideas about what we want and where. So we went to a tile place and spent a cold hour looking at dozens of tiles. When we met Dario we pointed back to where we had just been and he said no, he wanted to take us to another place that he always uses. Big problemo!! The place that Dario took us did not have any of the tiles that we had already chosen. We started all over again. We spent a further two hours choosing more tiles. To be fair we really did rather well. Elayne commented that we had chosen six or seven different tiles for different places in the house in two hours when it can sometimes take us more than two hours to choose just one wall paper (I did note that she mentioned ‘we‘ in that statement but chose not to labour the point on deaf ears).(E: wise man !) Obviously the presence of Dario had a decisive effect on ‘our’ joint decision making, (we‘ll have to take him with us when we choose the table and chairs and beds and kitchen units, it‘ll saves days). Two hours for this one task (of all the house building tasks that I had really been dreading) makes me feel quite giddy (not quite giddy enough to do it again just yet mind you).
On the way to Albox we passed Chema (architecto) going up to site to carry out his building inspection before concrete was poured on the ceiling/roof section. Later Dario said that the inspection was satisfactory. We tried to get Dario to indicate to us when they would now get the concrete up to site. His answer was either next week or it has already been delivered. We chose to think that the ’next week’ answer was more likely. As we were driving back to site from Taberno we noticed large deposits of concrete on the hill sections of the tarmac road. Indeed when we arrived here the whole job had been completed and now the builders have left site until ?????? So we are now proud owners of a concrete house shell including a roof. What will follow, and when, is the next question that we ask ourselves. Do they leave all of this to set now for two weeks? or will they start doing some walls? Watch this space for our further exciting adventures in Andalusia.