Casa Bliss Week 2 - And the AB's won!

Rosie burning off a bit of vegetation
I told her next time to get marshmallows!

The second week has flown as fast as the first, and we are quite settled into our little cottage. Although it is Autumn, it feels like spring as we have had so much rain since we arrived ( after they had hardly anything all summer) and with it being warm

Part of the lovely gardens

(temps in the early 20's) the grass and weeds which weren't in sight on our arrival are now lush & so green. Bushes and shrubs have all perked up and flowering. Seems weird for Autumn!

Bill cleared out the old kitchen

Bill has been getting on with the kitchen in "Rose Cottage" as you can see by the photo's. We have a deadline of the 11th November when there are some people coming to look at the property. Rosie has had the property on the market for a wee bit but the Spanish property market has been a bit stagnant. Now all of a sudden, it has perked up and people are starting to look

Really getting into it now.

inland instead of just on the coast. So it will be lovely for Rosie if it does sell, but if not, she still has to have all the work we are doing done in preparation for next summer. And of course we don't want it to sell till after we move on of course!

Coming along

The pool has had an ongoing leak and needed some work done on it, so it had to be drained. What a job that was, but between Rosie and Bill playing with hoses, they got it emptied. Luckily it has been raining so I haven't felt like a swim, but it is supposed to be lovely for the next week. So I guess it will just be a shower by the pool after our days work! The guy is suppose to turn up next week.

Starting a new trend in footwear

I've been scrubbing patio areas, which don't get as bad as at home over the winters here, but still needed freshening up.
And continued with my trenches & gardening.

The lovely pool half empty.

We seem to start working around ten and finishing around five. There are no set or expected hours to do, but with the 11th November deadline, we will help to get as much done as we can, and then will probably head off for a week and check out the area a bit further afield. Lots of history in this part of the world too.

End of the day, enjoying the last hour of sun

Saturday we finished up by 3.30 and got Rosie to drop us off in Alora to watch the AB's in the final of the World Cup of course. We arrived in town by 4.30 (Kick off was 5pm local time) and Bill visited about ten bars ( all the ones we could find) & asked if they were going to have the RWC on, but no such luck in a small place where they are all football mad and a big game was on. Most of them didn't have a clue what rugby was! So we jumped into a taxi & headed back home, but decided to give our local bar

It's Olive harvest time - two men
collecting the olives in a mesh 

another go after letting us down the week before. And to our delight it was just about to start. So there was the two of us and one other Englishman, whom we joined so we didn't have to yell across the empty bar. He wasn't sure who he was going to support, but with our arrival, he joined us against Australia. And didn't we do well!!

Looking out over Alora

Sunday we decided to have the day off and go into Alora on our bikes (great thought when we left here but a bit of a mission getting up the hill for the last ten minutes. The only good thing was it was to be downhill most of the way home thankfully).

Bill wondering how he can build
a castle like this back home

We visited the ruins of the Moorish Castle built in the tenth century and walked along the hill tops back into town, by which time we were quite hungry. Managed to find a little bar with beer & food. How wonderful, before heading back home as the temperature had dropped and we had cooled down after our warm up coming up into the town. There were quite a few families out and about as it was "All Saints Day" which has been slowly hijacked by Halloween, and made Monday a Public Holiday.

Looking down through the streets of Alora
Across to where we are staying in the hills