We rang a garage in Albox this morning, which just happens to employ an English speaking young man just to deal with the lucrative Ex-pat community business. They could mend the car and would contact the breakdown people to have the car delivered directly to them. He would ring me once they had unloaded the car and had a chance to assess the damage.
Indeed he rang me about two hours later to say that they had received the car, mended it and it was now ready for collection. After the shock I bit the bullet and asked him how much it would be and he said €50. Now that’s what I call a good result, providing that we haven’t done any other damage to the engine. The insurance brokers that we use had also contacted the insurance company, Ibex in the UK, and already had a commitment from them that we could, if required, hire a car for a maximum period of two weeks at €150 per week. As it works out we won’t need to do this.
We have two builders on site today (I did promise). The rejas and the doors are all back on site again together with the rest of the staircase banister. We are still not sure that the lounge door rejas are suitable but we will await them being put in position before we nod or shake our heads. It is quite strange that Dario will take the rejas off back to the fabrication shop with a problem and come to a conclusion about how to solve a problem, then without asking us they will go ahead and amend the things and deliver them back to site in the hope that we will just accept what they have done to them.
If we could also get Carlos and his party interested in doing a full weeks work up here, we would be getting well on the way toward the final furlong of the house build.
The wind, which we had assumed had calmed itself for the summer, got up noisily again last night. We were awakened by the noise and buffeting at about half past four this morning and we didn’t get much more sleep before getting up at eight o’clock. The only difference last night was that we didn’t have the car here to escape in, even if we had wanted to.
One way or another it’s certainly a challenging business being out here doing what we are doing.