MANILVA NEWSLETTER

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