Sick of moaning

The reason why there have been no postings since Wednesday is that the connection has been down again. We'd only got it back on Tuesday when the engineer came and set up the security key on our access point. By Wednesday evening it was off again. We had a text message to say that there had been a major component failure at our site which they were working to sort out. Anyway we are back online for the moment so fingers crossed the connection keeps working - well at least long enough for me to finish this post!

End of moan

I had an email from a guy called Leslie who lives on the other side of our estate. He'd found his way to my "Moving to Spain" site and this blog and had read everything I have posted. I emailed him back and he came round with this wife on Wednesday night to see us. I was amazed that, not only had he read all the postings but could remember a lot of the content as well. It was really good to know that someone had benefited from our experience. We hope that they are as happy here in Bigastro as we are.

John, our next door neighbour completed the sale on his house yesterday and has headed off back to France with his cousin Wayne. John had suffered problems with his business and his health which forced the sale. Poor John was absolutely devastated at having to give up his dream of living in Spain before it had really started. We hope he manages to sort his life out and that good fortune shines on him again. Now we'll just have to wait and see who our new neighbours will be.

Thursday we went back to our Spanish class to see our teacher Ana who is now a "senora". We didn't get any work done but did have a good chat about the wedding and her honeymoon. We gave her a selection of our pictures in an album we'd bought back in the UK. She was thrilled to bits because she hasn't seen any photographs of the wedding yet. She told us that the professional photographers had taken 2,836 photos on the day and it would be 3 months before they got the album. Let's hope they got some decent shots out of that lot!!!

The wedding reception was apparently excellent and lasted until 6:00am the following morning. The honeymoon cruise though was variable. Her husband, Angel had an abscess in his mouth which he'd had treatment for before the wedding but which flared up again whilst they were away. The weather they had was variable and the pizzas they served at the buffet on the boat were all tomato and cheese. Worst of all though they didn't have chocolate for breakfast. I think she was glad to get back to Spain.

As we were leaving the class she called us over to her car. There in the boot she had presents for us all from the wedding. They were so beautifully wrapped that we were loathe to open them. Inside there was a glass bell, a beautiful scarf and a smart keyring. We think the presents were from her Godparents and her sister. So not only is Ana a poppet, her whole family are poppets as well.