Thank you ladies. It'll be a bit before we're ready for entertaining methinks.
Our furniture and boxes arrived from the U.K. on Monday and with the help of the builders everything was moved in an hour or so. Biggest issue is that our street is too narrow to have the van outside the house so we bagged the closest parking space, about 40m away, on the Saturday and just left out car there until the movers van arrived.
We'd decided to "move in" on the Wednesday but an issue with the front door to our apartment upstairs (couldn't get in!) meant we put it off to Thursday. All quite funny now, but reminiscent of the issue with the keys on the day we bought the house, without any alcohol being involved. More on that later
Now, if someone tries to kick this door in then they'll end up at Urgencias...
Thirty days to make, hardwood with a full multi point locking system and approximately three inches thick. We're very pleased with our carpenters work.
There's a lot of finishing work still to be done externally upstairs, but we've hardly had a dry day for weeks. Constant wind and rain which locals have said they've never seen before - costing bars and restaurants a lot of money as they're simply not geared up for this type of weather over a protracted period of time. We've got painting and rendering needing done but the guys simply can't do it in this weather.
Just bought a bag of logs so will give our open fire a go tonight as its cold, wet and windy down here, not the night to go wandering further than the fridge for more ice and tonic
JF
