Moving in with the Builder - El Campo

Saturday 14^th October

We did about 3 hours scraping of walls, which is a thankless task, exposing crumbling plaster and parts of the old walls……more of that later !!

Posted my blog quite quickly, and joined J on the beach about 4.15 pm, and went to an English Bookie I had noticed previously. The Champion Stakes was on at 4.30 pm local time, so quickly scanned the form and plumped for Pride, a French filly who came second last year, and she won easily. Had 10 euro to win and got back 39, so paid for dinner.

In the evening, we went for a nice meal at a new restaurant in town. As it was early, the owner phoned the cook on his mobile and then gave us free olives and tapas to keep us there while we waited for the cook to arrive, but it was well worth the wait.

Sunday 15^th October

After a cooked breakfast in an English bar, we scraped walls and ceilings until about 1 pm. Then moved all the stuff from the little room downstairs up to our bedroom and piled it up in the centre of the room. Also packed our stuff ready to move to Ricardo’s next week sometime.

Ricardo arrived unannounced about 3.30 pm, and said we would need to move tomorrow, and invited us over to see the accommodation at his place , en el Campo…….in the Country. He also told us that as he was under pressure with his other 2 houses, he would have to have his best workers there next week.

The good news was that we would have 2 new workers, and that he would closely supervise them personally. One was a Russian he had just taken on, and the other would be another young lad like Francico from the town. We asked if the Russian was a builder , to which Ricardo replied …” No, I don’t think so….”.

The main work would be the plumbing of the new water tank and system and associated work.

We followed him to his house en el campo, which we had been led to believe was a converted garage, but it turned out to be a self contained part of the ground floor of his house with a sofa bed and small kitchenette, with a large bathroom, but not en suite. Ricardo had built the house himself, which is set amongst a grove of old olive trees.