A momentous week - Monday 21st May!

Casa Laurel - our new home!

This last Monday was the closing day on the house. We had decided to go into Mojácar Playa and buy all the stuff we needed to paint. We got paint brushes, rollers and trays, drop sheets, and 2 x 12 litre cans of paint. We also bought a ladder and various other items we needed. We had to be at our solicitor's office at 10 am we arrived in typical fashion at 9.45! We were excited after all! She had to go over some matters prior to going onto the Notary's office for him to witness the signing of the contract and confirming that all the agreed money had been paid and also that the sellers bank had been paid to release their mortgage from the property. 

We were there for about an hour, we had to have the whole contract explained to us and then the sellers had the same thing done for them by their solicitor. Once all this had been done we then waited to go into the Notary's office. Once in there he witnessed us all sign the contract in three places, confirmed the other details mentioned above and then we were out of his office! Once we got in there it had taken all of 5 minutes! We came out and our respective solicitors congratulated us all on an easy transaction and we shook hands all round and walked away with the keys to our new home!

From there we had to get up to Bédar to register at the town hall so we had our Padrón's in place as Stuart had to have his up to date to facilitate getting his shipped goods through customs which I am sure he'll make an additional comment on that subject! We got that done and dusted and walked away with them within the hour instead of the day after like in Turre! We had asked Tim the Estate Agent that listed the house if he wanted to come to lunch with us at the restaurant Miramar next to his office. But on the way back from the Town Hall we realised the Bédar post office was open (1.15 - 1.45pm Monday to Friday!). So we detoured there to introduce ourselves to the postmistress! We then called for Tim and got to the Miramar, sat down and ordered our food. Then Stuart's phone rang! At this point we had not even opened the door to the house as we'd gone straight up into Bédar village. It was our first delivery of furniture to arrive that day! Koala Muebles from Antas had arrived with the beds for the guest bedrooms, the headboards and a lovely mosaic inlaid patio table with 6 matching chairs. We had been planning on painting the walls where the headboards were going to go before they arrived but it was not to be! I no sooner opened the front door and they were in! We emptied the car of the stuff we had packed into the boot that morning and all the painting supplies while the people from Koala did their thing!

We also unpacked and unwrapped all the dinner plates etc that we had bought in Casa in Almeria ready for them to be washed in the dishwasher the next day. Along with that there would be lots of stuff to go into the washing machine too!

We had no sooner got that delivery out of the way and we had another company phone us. For them to find the house is a little tricky so we have been arranging to drive up to the outskirts of Bédar village and meet them in the car park and then escort them back down the hill and along the winding tarmaced track to our house "Casa Laurel". By the time we had got that delivery out of the way we were dragging a little and decided to lock up and make our way back to Turre to stay in the apartment on Monday night.