CASA OLIMPIA.

Thursday /Friday 6th/7th August 2009.

Thursday 6th.

In the morning we went down to Tarifa to the hypermarkets to stock up for the weekend and also get some more essentials in for the visitors next week; on the way out of Tarifa we hit major jams and were stuck in the centre of the town, there are only two roads in and out and the holiday traffic was very busy. The workers are getting on with the job and everything will ready by next Thursday,we hope! On Wednesday when speaking to Chris he asked me to check out the electricity bill;alarm bells rang immediately! All day on Thursday from early morning to evening I was on the phone and eventually found out that we had a problem, I called Chris in London and he gave me a credit card number to pay the bill but it takes over an hour each time on the phone before you are connected to the English speaking operator! They then instead of taking the payment for the whole bill insisted on doing it in stages,the result being that the card was stopped on the second transaction! This meant that the electricity would be cut off on Monday morning!!After another call to Chris we came up with a plan to pay the remaining bill with cash on Friday morning,so far so good ! For supper we had fresh Baby Sole pan fried in Lime butter with Baby new potatoes which we had bought in the morning along with Fresh Sardines and Prawns.

Friday 7th.

I was up and out by 7-00am and went across to Guadalmina to find the TV repair shop for the Large screen TV and found it straight away with a little bit of help, but had no luck as the part is not readily available. As I drove across to Estepona along the Autovia De Mediterranean the red sun was just coming up over the horizon and the colours were just unbelievable. I had arranged to meet Mano at the bank and then he was going to take me to the electricity office to get a copy of the bill and then pay it in cash; the only problem being was the queue, there was twenty people in front of us and the office, with just one clerk, was only open for three hours until 12-00clock! We waited for over two and half hours and were third in line to be seen when they closed!! It went mad as the temperature outside on the street was now 39degs.We then had to get back on our mobile phones and eventually managed, we think, to pay the bill with a credit card but we can’t get any confirmation as the offices are all closed!! Fingers crossed for Monday morning!!! I then had an appointment at the new clinic for some Diabetes tests on my feet, which I passed with flying colours.This evening we had our first swim in the pool as it is now up and running, the pictures below show the pool in the late evening sun, but not us!!