Thursday was a special day again for Stuart as following on from
picking up his Visado/Visa in Los
Angeles America Almeria
We had been told by the rental agency we’d be charged 20 Euros an
hour to clean the apartment. Bear in mind we had just found out we could get a
cleaner to work in our house if we wanted one for 6 Euros an hour and you can
see it was a rip off! Plus we had arranged the closing of the house purchase to
suit us giving us a 10 day period from our completing on the house to us giving
up the apartment so we had a nice buffer zone to get things done at a slightly
less frenetic pace! Well as it turned out we were still out of the apartment
pretty damn quick as we had our lovely home completed on and our beds delivered
all on the same day, quicker than we thought they might be! So I broke out the
new Dyson vacuum cleaner, got a mop and bucket loaded up and set about the
first stages of the cleaning! I stripped all the beds and took the bedding out
to wash and dry up in Bédar as we have a great hotspot for washing at the back
of the house. I left the place about 2 hours later with the main cleaning of
floors etc done and went into Mojácar Playa to go again to Ferriteria Lopez for
more needed supplies, grabbed an early lunch and then headed to Mercadona for
more needed shopping. Stuart checked in with me to let me know how things were
going and I asked him to call me when they passed Sorbas on the motorway so I
could head back down to Los Gallardos to pick him up.
In the meantime I set to washing to bedding and towels from the
apartment. By the time Stuart got back to the house it was nearly Sangria o’clock
and it was welcome as I was knackered by then!
Sunday Cliff and I returned to the apartment to finish cleaning it. There were three balconies each of which had a double-door floor to ceiling glass doors. I tried using glass cleaner and paper towels to no avail. I did succeed in smearing dirt around on the glass. Fortunately, we had brought some absorbent towels which worked a lot better. There were paint chips on the glass which had never been cleaned prior to our use of the apartment. In order to avoid the 20 euro charge, I removed them to the extent I could. Cliff had done a major cleaning while I was getting my residencia and he worked hard to finish cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom. We were sweaty and pooped by the time we finished. We wanted to avoid paying for any cleaning service. Fortunately, the rental company thought we had done a great job and there was no charge except for our usage of water and electricity during our stay.
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