As we came out of Lentisco’s last night there was a deluge rain storm going on. We got our feet and tops wet running to the car. I was seriously worried that we might not get back onto our side of the rambla if it had started to flood. However it was still quite dry in the bottom and by the time we came over the mountain tops back to the caravan the rain was just a few spots on the windscreen and it had not rained equally hard on site. Today we have been down to Albox , and went, after our FEB at Bar International, to order our log burning stove and fireplace surround. The guy down there spoke as much English as I did Spanish but with a lot of friendly smiling and gesticulating we managed. He will come up to do a survey soon. We arrange with every one to phone us when they set off and then we meet in Lentisco’s car park and I guide them up to site. We told him that we will be needing the fire in about four or five weeks and this seemed OK to him. Another job successfully done.
We visited the small town of Almazora after the fire shop. We have been through it before, when people were taking us around to see already built properties last year. It not a very likeable place and we are very glad that we were not seduced into anything in that area. The town though has a derelict palace next to a church (Palacio de Almanzora built from1700-1900). It is in a ruined state but it has been magnificent in it’s hay days. What a great shame that it could not have been restored to it’s former glory, however, when a country is thirty to forty years behind the rest of Europe, and having suffered the destruction wrought by a civil war and then having a further thirty five years of dictatorship, one can see that what to us would be a priority restoration, would fall down the list of priorities and come a long way after the vivid memories of starvation and depravation of those times. The buildings, although left, are still surprisingly in fair condition should someone come along and rescue it. Pictures also of wild roadside lavender etc.
Since coming back home we have had a quite heavy thunder storm. It has been thunder and lightning all around us with hailstones bouncing down and gradually climbing the outside of the caravan windows (see pictures). The temperature outside dropped down to 3 degrees. Come to sunny Spain! The storm has now moved off to the west and the skies are once more becoming lighter.
We filled the car up with petrol this morning. We have just done over 15000km in eight months since we got the car. It is a very reliable and trustworthy friend to us.
We didn’t get up to site yesterday, so we have to see two days progress when we go up tonight.
Just been: Small hall way plastered and the top half of our bedroom plastered, rock on. The rain has washed the solarium tiles so that they look really good.
We visited the small town of Almazora after the fire shop. We have been through it before, when people were taking us around to see already built properties last year. It not a very likeable place and we are very glad that we were not seduced into anything in that area. The town though has a derelict palace next to a church (Palacio de Almanzora built from1700-1900). It is in a ruined state but it has been magnificent in it’s hay days. What a great shame that it could not have been restored to it’s former glory, however, when a country is thirty to forty years behind the rest of Europe, and having suffered the destruction wrought by a civil war and then having a further thirty five years of dictatorship, one can see that what to us would be a priority restoration, would fall down the list of priorities and come a long way after the vivid memories of starvation and depravation of those times. The buildings, although left, are still surprisingly in fair condition should someone come along and rescue it. Pictures also of wild roadside lavender etc.
Since coming back home we have had a quite heavy thunder storm. It has been thunder and lightning all around us with hailstones bouncing down and gradually climbing the outside of the caravan windows (see pictures). The temperature outside dropped down to 3 degrees. Come to sunny Spain! The storm has now moved off to the west and the skies are once more becoming lighter.
We filled the car up with petrol this morning. We have just done over 15000km in eight months since we got the car. It is a very reliable and trustworthy friend to us.
We didn’t get up to site yesterday, so we have to see two days progress when we go up tonight.
Just been: Small hall way plastered and the top half of our bedroom plastered, rock on. The rain has washed the solarium tiles so that they look really good.
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