Start of Week 2

Day 6 - Saturday 7th October

We spent a couple of hours clearing out the kitchen, and taking some old furniture to the Punto Limpio (Tip). This is an interesting place for the green and ecofriendly…. the Spanish are clearly into recycling, with nearly 20 different bins for recyclable items, including surprisingly, medical X Rays…….I’ll do a post on the Punto Limpio at a later date.

Since J offered us to Ricardo as paint scrapers, J put in several hours scraping off paint and plaster, starting with the stairs leading to the roof terrace.

Day 7 - Sunday 8^th October

We decided to have a day off , and went down to the coast to sort out my first blog posting and a few hours on the beach.

Thee were a lot of women and children in Spanish traditional flamenco dresses, the men in tight breeches, boots and hats ….some on horses, some in traditional carriages and other on scooters, either driving or as pillion passengers, and others just promenading. Very colourful. Probably related to the Feria (Fair) over the weekend which we missed.

Day 8 - Monday 9th October

Juan and Franchico arrived as church bell was chiming 8.00 am and straight up on to roof (arriba as they say meaning “on the top”). Ricardo arrived soon after to supervise, but didn’t stay long.

We went out for the day to get out of their way, and to get a few jobs done.

They left at 4 pm having grouted tiles and edging, leaving about 1/3^rd of the terrace still to be completed. They had also removed a bit of the asbestos roof above the kitchen, which gave a better idea of how the mezzanine room was formed, and the remaining problem of how the bathroom and verandah roof could be formed and accessed.