Well it nearly came off. We had one cleaner (instead of two) and Carlos called to connect the garage up to the electrical system today but didn’t finish off anything else.
I cornered Dario this afternoon and sat him down in the caravan, with a Spanish calendar, and we agreed that subject to this and subject to that we would call the project complete on Thursday 28th June. Dario will call our architecto, Chema, who happens now to be the Mayor of Taberno, and ask him to attend and inspect the building on Thursday and Bob, of Lighthouse Properties, will also be in attendance for the great occasion. We have already started to call in all the furniture with the first lot arriving sometime on Thursday morning.
Once we have electricity and a bed, we are off up that hill to sleep in a proper brick building for the first time since we moved up here in September last year.
We are both very excited but we also appreciate that there could be a few last minute snags that may just keep us here a little longer.
As with every project we have ever done I find that if we don’t drive it forward then the project goes into a malaise and nothing ever gets finished off. Even previous house moving in the UK, with overpaid solicitors sat on their big fees, has had to be driven to make it happen when we want it too. Clearly Spain is no different.
Muchos bank visits for large dollops of money to pay every one as they arrive with items of furniture. If we pay them in cash as the furniture is delivered on site then no one asks for the IVA (VAT). As IVA is 16.5% then who am I to insist on paying 16.5% extra for everything, we no loco.
E: It has been one of the hottest days so far today, and we went down to Mojacar for a few hours. The poor cats are beginning to suffer the heat,(38 degrees when we got back to the caravan) so we hope that in a few days they will have some cold tiles to lie on. They lie under the caravan in the shade, when we get back and let them out.
We see from Wimbledon, that the weather is being as summery as usual for this time of year, with tempests and floods, and howling gales. We hope that it gets better soon, ‘onest we do.