Fango Fango Fango(mud)

Well progess has suffered a bit due to the amount of rain we have had which has slowed the work. The road to the house is a sea of mud(fango) and a four wheel drive is needed to get there. The new parking area and entrance door and stairway up to the house is taking shape.

View to house from the new carpark

Also the new terracing including  the swimming pool technical area are constructed. The next big works is the earth moving for the pool and garage  lets hope we have some drier weather to allow this to go on. In the mean time we are ordering the bath fixtures and fittings.

Auguri per Natale e Buon Anno

I hope everyone had a good Xmas. I am already thinking of New Years resolutions one of which has to be to do  more exercise after eating too much as ever over Xmas.
  The weather now seems to have changed to warm and wet with the resulting problems of flooding and landslip. I hope everyone manages to escape these natural disasters without mishap. I will be visiting the house next week and with any luck it will remain unscathed by the weather.

Will the earth move for you?

We have just got back from seeing the progress of the work on the house. It doesnt look like that much progress has been made but in fact a lot of the work is not visible and will not be visible once the house is finished.  There are lots of steel bolts in the first floor which will strengthen the floor and steel beams and reinforced concrete which will mean that, when finished, the house should withstand an earthquake! Let hope it never needs to.

Having seen the original foundations I can now understand why the old house had a few cracks in it. Work has also started on the new terracing where the old drive was which will join up with the infinity pool and the garage which is going under the garden and on top of which we will be planting an old olive tree. The builders have also made good the road which a few weeks ago was impassible. But there is still a lot to do!!!