Written Saturday 14-7-2007 published 25-7-2007, sorry, been off line again.
We’ve done it at last. Carlos came up on Thursday and finished nearly all of his work so that we were happy to declare that, subject to a hold back of €1000 for smallish jobs outstanding, we were happy to pay over the final payment in exchange for the key and to finally move into our lovely new home. Bella Solana (the house name) means ‘beautiful place in the sun‘. It is a good name for a beautiful house that we are very proud of having created.
So Friday the 13th (despite protestations from Elayne) and one year, less one week, since we came to Spain, we have paid for and moved into our new home. It was a token ’sleep in’ really because we have oodles of stuff in the caravan (as you can imagine after ten months of camping out) and the porta cabin, that we have to move up to the house.
This is therefore my very last blog. Congratulation to anyone, besides us, who has had the tenacity to stick with the blog for all 311 editions and entries, you deserve a medal or ticket to the nearest asylum.
We want as many of our friends and family to come to see us and Bella Solana as and when time, and conditions, permit, we are still only a phone call away.
On the blog we have tried to show all angles of this adventure, the frustrations, the joys, the fears, even the tears, and the delights. We hope that it has given a small flavour of what anyone can do if they are prepared to just say one, two, three ‘jump‘ and take a leap of faith.
Elayne and I thank all of our family and many friends, both in Spain and the rest of the world for their encouragement and support.
If you also have an idea to do a blog, do it and let us know so that we can share your story. It is not something that I thought that we would be able to do, until we started to do it and we found that we actually could. Not a bad bit of philosophy of life to finish on.
Please keep in touch, everyone, we are not deserting you, we are just not doing the blog anymore.
Lots of love from us both.
Elayne and Paul Fellowes.
We’ve done it at last. Carlos came up on Thursday and finished nearly all of his work so that we were happy to declare that, subject to a hold back of €1000 for smallish jobs outstanding, we were happy to pay over the final payment in exchange for the key and to finally move into our lovely new home. Bella Solana (the house name) means ‘beautiful place in the sun‘. It is a good name for a beautiful house that we are very proud of having created.
So Friday the 13th (despite protestations from Elayne) and one year, less one week, since we came to Spain, we have paid for and moved into our new home. It was a token ’sleep in’ really because we have oodles of stuff in the caravan (as you can imagine after ten months of camping out) and the porta cabin, that we have to move up to the house.
This is therefore my very last blog. Congratulation to anyone, besides us, who has had the tenacity to stick with the blog for all 311 editions and entries, you deserve a medal or ticket to the nearest asylum.
We want as many of our friends and family to come to see us and Bella Solana as and when time, and conditions, permit, we are still only a phone call away.
On the blog we have tried to show all angles of this adventure, the frustrations, the joys, the fears, even the tears, and the delights. We hope that it has given a small flavour of what anyone can do if they are prepared to just say one, two, three ‘jump‘ and take a leap of faith.
Elayne and I thank all of our family and many friends, both in Spain and the rest of the world for their encouragement and support.
If you also have an idea to do a blog, do it and let us know so that we can share your story. It is not something that I thought that we would be able to do, until we started to do it and we found that we actually could. Not a bad bit of philosophy of life to finish on.
Please keep in touch, everyone, we are not deserting you, we are just not doing the blog anymore.
Lots of love from us both.
Elayne and Paul Fellowes.
5 comments:
Congratulations on your new home!
It looks fantastic, well done both of you.
Best Wishes
Geoff & Jane
Benarraba
Malaga
Spain
Congratulations! Please can we have some inside shots before you go......the infamous headboard for starters!
Or will I just get to see these on e-mail? :o)
S,D,I and O xxxxxxx
At last. Well done looks great. i agree with Debs inside shots would be fab but if you cant we will be there soon to see for real!!
LOL Jane
Hearty (pun!!)congrats from us both. Enjoy it, be happy and have a bottle of Asti on us!
JOHN and CHRIS
xx
Cheers all and thanks for the kind thoughts.
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