Well thing do appear to be settling down now & things are being done which please me no end.
The meeting with Tamara last Thursday very good & Windsorian came along too & what a pleasant day it was. I now have a Spanish SIM card
& several other things are falling into place. Of course the lovely sunny weather as I drove through the mountains was simply wonderful although the last couple of days have not been sunny and not much to my liking.
But I am still having minor problems with a few things like for instance setting up my printer, it is wireless but it is causing me problems. Then there are various Christmas electrical gadget presents which I want to set up. Suppose I am impatient because when I think about them, I want them doing now. A fault of mine I suppose but things like this cause me mental hassle.
I am getting used to four of the five bars in the village with everyone talking to me which is nice. The fifth only opens “in the summer” as it is on the main road & does exceptional business in the four or five months it is open, I am also very happy that the Spanish residents appear to be getting used to me. Thankfully I have also met and also seem to be accepted by the “foreigners”. English, Scottish, Dutch, German & I’m told Norwegian.
The shop also is very amenable & my sign language appears to be up to scratch. When I asked her for something in Spanish today she laughed. I don’t know whether that was in surprise or the way I said it but I know my attempt was received well.
I walked around Malaga on Tuesday & after speaking to my telephone/wifi provider in Aggorobbo in the morning over a minor problem drove to Malaga. I hadn’t a clue where I was going & found myself in the busy new Malaga area. When I came back to Sedella was told that I should have headed for the old town. Yet another useful lesson learned.
An interesting & amusing thing happened a day or two ago. I saw the tourist information office at the start of the village but saw that it doubles as the post office but is only open weekdays & for just 30 minutes from 11.30am. So I popped in to introduce myself & ask a couple of questions. Firstly I had difficulty with the language (as usual) but I was directed to the town hall. Now I have seen it, and is literally round the corner & what an elaborate place it is, but alas it was closed. Peering through the windows it looked very pristine nice modern furniture & décor but closed. I went back at 1.30pm then again at 5.30pm still closed & the following day was the same. So I asked my friends. “Oh it’s not their” I was told, “they are still in the old one by the church but I wouldn’t bother going as no-one speaks English” I went anyway but what a sorry shabby place, lovely Spanish people but a 1920’s office. But to get back to the newly built el ayuntamiento that was completely finished & ready for use two years ago but they have simply never got round to moving to it yet. In that time they have opened it once for one day & that was for a children’s festival. Spanish life, I love it.
Today I was introduced to a “wine” seemingly only made in the surrounding area and sold by the farmers to the bars. Different “brewers” though have different strengths, tastes and whether it is sweet or dry. It is called Vino Terado although that may be spelt incorrectly. I say wine because it is about 30% proof & is served from a two litre bottle. As an almost non-drinker I was warned not to drink too much of this as it very potent. It seemed to me to be a cross between a red wine & a glass of port, a very nice drink.
Whoopee I have just fixed my printer! What a pain I had tried several things but repeatedly kept being told it could not find the network.
Eventually I decided to connect by using a USB which I eventually found from one of the several full boxes yet to be assigned a home. But even this was unsuccessful. I was getting annoyed now but then good news. On checking the cabling I realised that the “square” end & the “oblong” end were interchangeable in the printer & the laptop. Could this be my problem? It was; the cables simply needed changing around which meant that at least the printer & laptop were talking to each other, after that it was easy to change it a wireless network. Nowhere in the manuals or helps does it tell you this.
So now I can back to printing things again like a EX18 form for the police station.
Now this untidy house – it is improving but now it’s getting dusty as well!