So much has happened over the last few days I really don't know where to start,I am told by locals that Easer here in Valencia usually turns up with changeable weather, now there is the understatement of the century, we have had the worst storms in 75 years 4 days of non stop rain, thunder and lightening a total of 24 inches of rain in those few days which caused flooding in so many areas of the Costa Blanca. I spent Easter sitting in front of my PC with torrential rain outside my window while watching racing from the UK which was bathed in sunshine....don't tell me there is nothing wrong with the climate!!!. I feel so sorry for all the people that came to places like Benidorm to escape the normal British Easter weather to get some sunshine like my old friend Chris and her family only to find flooding and cold winds, there is so much footage of all this on YouTube even LadBaby was there in Benidorm over Easter.
Some clips of the rain
And yes it did rain inside my house downstairs and upstairs it was that heavy. The day the rain stopped was the day I had to drive to Valencia airport to pick up our Beth I have been so looking forward to this as I have really missed her, I managed to get lost twice even with the Sat Nav switched on. Beth hasn't been too well it appears that one person on the plane had a bug and of course now everyone on the plane has that bug, We have managed to go down to the beach a couple of times and will be going again today, and done some shopping of course.
Sadly Beth is leaving on Monday to meet up with a friend for a week of..well partying I suppose in Barcelona I just hope it is not another 6 months before we see Beth again.
Beth with a Buddha exiting her head
In other news we have been thwarted in our first attempt to gain our 5 year temporary Citizenship, we managed to get health insurance for the pair of us at an astronomical monthly cost of way over £600 of course wee were going to cancel this as soon as we got our green cards but, the man who says yes said no because for one he had never heard of the insurance company we were using even though they are based in Spain and have been trading for over 30 years and even though we had enough money in our account to show we could meet the income limit of 550 Euro each a month the man said we could just take that out of the bank at any time he wanted to see pensions payments into the bank and 3 months of them at that, but you can also cash in your pension as well at anytime, he didn't like that, So we are going to attack from a different angle we do have three years, and you never the British public may come to their senses yet.
Another wee problem we have a dog called Willow one called Harry and my name is Russ or Russell you would not believe the trouble Spaniards have pronouncing these names..Willow become weeyow, Harry becomes huayay and don't don't even go there with my name, they pronounce their "R"'s different from us double "LL" is a yu sound etc etc so might have to use my middle name and call myself Tony just so the locals can talk to me...??
Another wee problem we have a dog called Willow one called Harry and my name is Russ or Russell you would not believe the trouble Spaniards have pronouncing these names..Willow become weeyow, Harry becomes huayay and don't don't even go there with my name, they pronounce their "R"'s different from us double "LL" is a yu sound etc etc so might have to use my middle name and call myself Tony just so the locals can talk to me...??
No comments:
Post a Comment