A personal item & meeting new friends
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 @ 3:45 AM
Just before I talk about the week I think I should explain briefly about Phet, my wife.
Being Thai every time she travels outside of the UK she has to apply to that country embassy for a special visa to enter. It is called a Schengen visa & what a pain in the bum it is. So imagine the pain having to keep applying to the Spanish Embassy with their stupid archaic ways for every time she wanted to come to Spain. She has therefore applied for British Citizenship & as such the UK Home Office (Border Agency) has all of her paperwork, passports, birth certificates, wedding certificates etc. So she is marooned at the moment in England whilst I am in Sedella. The Home Office say “up to six months” which started the end of March. I think it will be earlier as Phet has an exemplary record both financially & legally. The sooner she is over here though, with me the better, even better for us both. Thank goodness for Skype, but this is why she is not involved much in Spain at the moment.
So on Wednesday at 5.30pm just after speaking to one of my daughter’s on Skype I made my way to Canillas de Acetunas to meet Alan from where he would take me a couple of kilometres to his new villa & to meet his wife Linda, of whom I had been communicating through EoS, then email & mobile phone for some months. They had driven the week before from Yorkshire to Portsmouth then from Bilbao to their new home and this with their three little dogs, all with superb personalities. The little old lady, the sensible, think about it one, and “Jack the lad”, the Artful Dodger or as they call him Houdini.
Linda & Alan have a super property with even better views, up into the Nevada’s & down into the long valley. After a super dinner cooked by Alan we again repaired to the patio to listen, then watch the sheep & goats. I say listen,
as you can hear the goat bells clanking a long time before they come into view. Each day the Herder walks miles with the herd which also has about 20% sheep mixed in with the goats. We were very lucky that day as he brought them straight under the patio on their way home. There are actually two herds utilising the valley one going left the other right. Their paths do not cross at any time. I find this. fascinating that they get on so well.
So after an really good evening & thanks to my hosts, just before nightfall I made my way home with each vowing that should do this again.
What a good week this has been for me, Wednesday invited to dinner & now Thursday, again invited to dinner in Sedella with as lovely a Scottish couple as one could meet. Thank you Doreen & Derek the Lasagne, Chicken, vegetables & salad could not be surpassed. Of course with loads of alcohol flowing freely and only two minutes’ walk from home. Then we all watched the football on the box.