Swimming with the Sharks!
This last week or two has been very hot but also very stressful. Being a foreigner ramps up the stress levels considerably especially when your language skills are as poor as ours. We have pretty much immersed ourselves in the Spanish as much as we can but we are not as young as we were and blimey the old brain cells are not what they used to be! If our language skills were better we may not have got into the same pickle... but there again when someone is trying to fleece you, in any language, it is worrying and extremely annoying. I will explain. When we first bought the property we knew that the buildings on it (our house and the garage and wash room and bore hole pump house) were not legalised. The house in particular was (and is) classed as a barn or storeroom. 5,000 euros of the purchase price was withheld by us (with the previous owners consent) solely for the purpose of legalising the property. Once the purchase was complete and all the deeds transferred into ou