CHAPTER 12

"Soon shall We strike terror Into the hearts of the Unbelievers." Koran 3:151.

Home; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11.

				The kitchen in Britain - it cost more than 5 bedrooms, two bathrooms, swimming pool, over 200 square metres of terraces, 100 metres of retaining walls, and a gym, in Spain. Can you believe it???

				The house that Andres and Antonio built - as it was when we arrived. You can see there was nothing upstairs - until Andres and Antonio got started.

				The day of arrival. Andres and Antonio carried all the materials to build the first floor through the upstairs window on the left of the picture. You can see the rickety ladder where the car is, and the pile of materials on the roof - actually, that is where the vine is.

				The swimming pool, I decided - much to Gemma's dismay - would go over to the right where the car is parked.

				Gabriel getting the last of our few things from the car for our first night in our new home - and the first day of our new life.

							This is how the house looked after just four months work by Andres and Antonio. As Washington Irving said, the Spanish are a proud, hardy, frugal, and abstemious people, having manly defiance of hardships and contempt for effeminate indulgences - until 'Zappy the Shoe' came along, that is - I mean of course, the Liberal Fundamentalist idiot Zapatero - 'El Gran Feminista'. The bottom pictures are of a local bar, and some of Ramon's tapas.

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