Wednesday 20-6-2007
We may not have the internet, again today, but we do have four guys working here on site. Carlos did arrive after twelve, but he’s here and that is good.
This morning one of Carlos’s men asked us to lay out the light fittings, in their respective rooms, so that he could start hanging and connecting them. These include also the bathroom mirror fitments, which have light in them, together with the outside porch, the solarium and the outside wall lights.
All quite exciting. Could it be that ‘the end is nigh‘, at last? We had better not believe that too much just yet.
The temperature is thirty four just outside the caravan today. The so called cold water coming down from the hebe in black pipes to the caravan is so hot when it gets here that you can’t put your hand in it. I had a shower this morning and the water was too hot for comfort.
Thursday 21-6-2007
We had a nice surprise this morning when we came back from Albox. As we drove past and looked across at the house we saw that the electrician had put the outside porch lights up as well as the outside wall lights. Talk about it changing the way that the building looks. ‘Bella Solana’ (beautiful sunny place) is now finally dressed properly and she looks very bella for it. We are both delighted with the overall appearance that the house now has.
We have had Carlos and crew on site for a full three days now and the kitchen is nearly finished and lots of the odd jobs are being completed. We rang Dario today to ask why he had sent no one up to site today when he still has quite a lot of tidying up jobs still to do. We got a blathered answer but we are going to keep the pressure on him to finish next week. We also called Phil over (of solar fame, he is working near by) to discuss with Carlos what is required to join the solar and generator electrical system up with the electrics for the house and garage. They each now know what is required and Phil will come over on Tuesday or Wednesday to make the connections and the whole thing live. We’re nearly there.
This morning we went with Jane (interpreter) to the Albox medical centre where we have now become registered with a lady doctor down there. She speaks no English so we will have to take plenty of translation books with us or we call Jane up and she can come with us. It’s yet another stage in getting fully engrossed into the Spanish system.
BTW, a comment just because you may be interested. Banking between here and the UK is quite easy. We still bank in the UK and have our pensions etc, paid into our UK accounts. Once a month we have a standing order that transfers a set amount of money over to our Spanish bank account and also we can make spot transfers between the UK and Spanish accounts for special payments like the lump sums for the house. For these transfers we use Currency Direct. Hole in the wall banking, and the getting of cash, generally is good although a payment of €0.30 is made for each transaction. There you go should you have ever wondered.
We may not have the internet, again today, but we do have four guys working here on site. Carlos did arrive after twelve, but he’s here and that is good.
This morning one of Carlos’s men asked us to lay out the light fittings, in their respective rooms, so that he could start hanging and connecting them. These include also the bathroom mirror fitments, which have light in them, together with the outside porch, the solarium and the outside wall lights.
All quite exciting. Could it be that ‘the end is nigh‘, at last? We had better not believe that too much just yet.
The temperature is thirty four just outside the caravan today. The so called cold water coming down from the hebe in black pipes to the caravan is so hot when it gets here that you can’t put your hand in it. I had a shower this morning and the water was too hot for comfort.
Thursday 21-6-2007
We had a nice surprise this morning when we came back from Albox. As we drove past and looked across at the house we saw that the electrician had put the outside porch lights up as well as the outside wall lights. Talk about it changing the way that the building looks. ‘Bella Solana’ (beautiful sunny place) is now finally dressed properly and she looks very bella for it. We are both delighted with the overall appearance that the house now has.
We have had Carlos and crew on site for a full three days now and the kitchen is nearly finished and lots of the odd jobs are being completed. We rang Dario today to ask why he had sent no one up to site today when he still has quite a lot of tidying up jobs still to do. We got a blathered answer but we are going to keep the pressure on him to finish next week. We also called Phil over (of solar fame, he is working near by) to discuss with Carlos what is required to join the solar and generator electrical system up with the electrics for the house and garage. They each now know what is required and Phil will come over on Tuesday or Wednesday to make the connections and the whole thing live. We’re nearly there.
This morning we went with Jane (interpreter) to the Albox medical centre where we have now become registered with a lady doctor down there. She speaks no English so we will have to take plenty of translation books with us or we call Jane up and she can come with us. It’s yet another stage in getting fully engrossed into the Spanish system.
BTW, a comment just because you may be interested. Banking between here and the UK is quite easy. We still bank in the UK and have our pensions etc, paid into our UK accounts. Once a month we have a standing order that transfers a set amount of money over to our Spanish bank account and also we can make spot transfers between the UK and Spanish accounts for special payments like the lump sums for the house. For these transfers we use Currency Direct. Hole in the wall banking, and the getting of cash, generally is good although a payment of €0.30 is made for each transaction. There you go should you have ever wondered.
2 comments:
Never mind pics of you two lounging about boozing where are pics of Bella Solana looking lovely? :o)
Glad to hear its moving on a bit.
Dx
Oooops, forgot about that!!!
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