SETTLING IN-SPANISH STYLE
The house is fully furnished in the Spanish style and also has a very modern heating/air conditioning system,Over the next few days we moved in.it took over twenty trips in the Smart car and with the help of Mano and Anna at the house and Vidal and Gissy back on the site we have settled in and stamped our personality on our new homeOn the first night,Mano,Anna,Carlos ,Anna and Fabio came round and we cracked open our first bottle of champagne At the weekend Vidal and Gissy.came over with the last load so we opened another bottle of champagne,then Mano and Anna called in and we ended up back at theirs for eggs,chips and peppers at 1-00 clock in the morning.On the street where we live just ten yards down is a very nice tapas bar “Bodega Andaluz”-our local! And also opposite it is a small supermarket and just around the corner,a bread shop,chemists,doctors
two butchers,a fruit and vegetableshop,a fish market and over twenty tapas bars to choose from!!After the weekend we then went back to the site and started cleaning the Winnebago,Gissy joined Brenda and Vidal plumbed in the new tap,fixed all the things on the Winnebago that needed fixing and painted all the iron parts underneath,then went on the roof and opened the storage box's to finish the move,We then washed down the Winnebago in between the showers and did all the chores to finish off getting it ready.Vidal had also called into the German car show rooms next to the site,the owner knows Vidal and he agreed to put the Winnebago on the forecourt and we have done a deal with him to sell it,it is also in the papers for five weeks,we have also got a Spanish man interested in it,he had seen the for- sale sign on it and called us.The Winnebago looks very lonely as we passed it the other day but it is creating a lot of interest and it is safe and secure on the forecourt and it is floodlight at night-in the end if it does not sell here then we can arrange for Dudleys to pick it up and take it back to Oxford,but we are very confidant that we will get a sale as our German friend will also take a car in part exchange as part of our deal!Last Saturday as we where unpacking at the house the phone went,we now have a Telefonica land line and wireless internet which was installed within 24 hous with Mano's help!The call was from a very nice English man who had seen our advert in the” Sur “ for housesitting which has been in the paper for a few weeks,we shot across to see him on the far side of Marbella and we are now in his villa for five days looking after his sons fish,hampster and a puppy Jack Russell called Jack!We also dropped him off at Malaga airport in his Range Rover sports and are picking him and his son up on Sunday eveningThe villa is on a private estate on the Santa Clara golf course overlooking the 13th tee!It is our first paid job and we think that we will now pick up more work from him in the future.So our new life begins,next week we are signing the papers at the town hall to become resident as we have now received from England the necessary documents in our new letterbox, which we put up yesterday.Watch out for the pictures in the next few days!Below is our new address and telephone ;
CALLE SAN VINCENTE 1
29261 MANILVA
MALAGA
SPAIN
952890548
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
MANILVA NEWSLETTER
“ THE START OF A NEW ERA “
First of all,sorry to all our reader's / bloggers !! We have been off line for the last few weeks due to a radical change in our life style.As we left you at the end of January we were house sitting for Mano and Anna at their house in Manilva,looking after the two dogs and two cats.We went to Fabio's birthday party at Carlos apartment after attending the preview of our sales training for Marriott's new sales managers at the resort.Over the weekend we looked at more apartments/houses and made various contacts with Spanish and English agents.At the start of February we attended for three afternoons as prospective customers for the sales staff and we received for our efforts 160 e vouchers for dining out,160 e vouchers for spa treatments and a stay in one of the Marriott resort apartments !! At the end of the week Mano and Anna came home after nearly three weeks away in North Wales and Manchester, the date 8th February we will remember for ever!As they got back we went out into Manilva on a tapas trail-starting at Bodega Augustin,” The Office” as it is known locally! We then progressed through the village and ended up at Carlos's before we made our way back to the office and then onto Mano's.The weather over the last couple of weeks has changed to some cold rainy days with late afternoon sunshine,so we sat inside the bar- I noticed on the wall by the bar a poster had been put up showing a house to rent in Manilva,I rang the number and then Mano took over as the owner,a Spanish lady was in Tenerife on holiday and handed us over to her son,in Sabrinillas who is a local politician and lawyer,who arranged for us to go and view the house at 6-30pm that evening.We walked up through the village to the town hall and turned left down the street to the house where the sister of the owner,who also lives next door,showed us around.The three story property is in the heart of Manilva surrounded by all the oldest houses and is typically Spanish.You walk off the narrow street into the main lounge/dining area,with the modern kitchen and larder behind,It has marbled floors and stairs,shutters on all the windows and spread over the next two floors are three double bedrooms,a dressing room opening into the large bathroom and onto the top floor which has a drying room and a rooftop terrace over looking Manilva! We fell in love with it immediately and met the lawyer at 7-30pm and shook hands on a deal,which Mano had negotiated for us with a discount !!The contract was to be signed on Tuesday lunchtime,the 12th of February.In the meantime we had already put the Winnebago up for sale in the local paper and also put for sale signs on it at the site-more about this later!Over the weekend we went over to the site to see Vidal and Gissy and catch up with all our news-they have been real friends and stars! Vidal had found on the site sombody who wanted the Smart car trailer,Keith and Brenda who we already knew,so we did a deal and that paid for the deposit and rent for the first month!On the Saturday morning we went down to Estepona and opened a Spanish bank account and made all the arrangements for some transfer of funds.On Tuesday the 12th February at 1-00pm we signed the contract at the lawyers office and with Mano 's help checked it out,the lawyers wife,also a lawyer,speaks very good English,her name is Marjoleine and she was also nine months pregnant at the time,three days later she gave birth to a baby girl! We moved in the same night !!
First of all,sorry to all our reader's / bloggers !! We have been off line for the last few weeks due to a radical change in our life style.As we left you at the end of January we were house sitting for Mano and Anna at their house in Manilva,looking after the two dogs and two cats.We went to Fabio's birthday party at Carlos apartment after attending the preview of our sales training for Marriott's new sales managers at the resort.Over the weekend we looked at more apartments/houses and made various contacts with Spanish and English agents.At the start of February we attended for three afternoons as prospective customers for the sales staff and we received for our efforts 160 e vouchers for dining out,160 e vouchers for spa treatments and a stay in one of the Marriott resort apartments !! At the end of the week Mano and Anna came home after nearly three weeks away in North Wales and Manchester, the date 8th February we will remember for ever!As they got back we went out into Manilva on a tapas trail-starting at Bodega Augustin,” The Office” as it is known locally! We then progressed through the village and ended up at Carlos's before we made our way back to the office and then onto Mano's.The weather over the last couple of weeks has changed to some cold rainy days with late afternoon sunshine,so we sat inside the bar- I noticed on the wall by the bar a poster had been put up showing a house to rent in Manilva,I rang the number and then Mano took over as the owner,a Spanish lady was in Tenerife on holiday and handed us over to her son,in Sabrinillas who is a local politician and lawyer,who arranged for us to go and view the house at 6-30pm that evening.We walked up through the village to the town hall and turned left down the street to the house where the sister of the owner,who also lives next door,showed us around.The three story property is in the heart of Manilva surrounded by all the oldest houses and is typically Spanish.You walk off the narrow street into the main lounge/dining area,with the modern kitchen and larder behind,It has marbled floors and stairs,shutters on all the windows and spread over the next two floors are three double bedrooms,a dressing room opening into the large bathroom and onto the top floor which has a drying room and a rooftop terrace over looking Manilva! We fell in love with it immediately and met the lawyer at 7-30pm and shook hands on a deal,which Mano had negotiated for us with a discount !!The contract was to be signed on Tuesday lunchtime,the 12th of February.In the meantime we had already put the Winnebago up for sale in the local paper and also put for sale signs on it at the site-more about this later!Over the weekend we went over to the site to see Vidal and Gissy and catch up with all our news-they have been real friends and stars! Vidal had found on the site sombody who wanted the Smart car trailer,Keith and Brenda who we already knew,so we did a deal and that paid for the deposit and rent for the first month!On the Saturday morning we went down to Estepona and opened a Spanish bank account and made all the arrangements for some transfer of funds.On Tuesday the 12th February at 1-00pm we signed the contract at the lawyers office and with Mano 's help checked it out,the lawyers wife,also a lawyer,speaks very good English,her name is Marjoleine and she was also nine months pregnant at the time,three days later she gave birth to a baby girl! We moved in the same night !!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
MANILVA NEWSLETTER
Watch out in the next few days for one "Helluva" update on what's been happening to us !!
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