Wednesday, October 19, 2011

All the toilet seats in Spain fall off.
I met a guy last night who is probably fairly well to do. He owns an entire building in the Arenal district and has just renovated it. Buildings here often have to be gutted. He had to take the floors out, and there were pictures of iron rods holding parts of the house up. If renovation work is going on on a building, you would be likely to see a grader (?) or backhoe actually right inside the building. They sometimes dig down below it too. The walls are left standing of course, because that is the valuable part.
This guy's building has spectacular Moorish style windows with mozaics around the edges and tiny pillars/columns, as well as ceramic knobs here and there on top of the roof. There were a ton of old and valuable tiles inside, which they attempted to save as much as they could.
He asked my advice about how to market it for rentals. He wants to find the market probably of foreigners who are on the move. Very flexible - could be rented for a month, 3 months or a year. And the prices he's thinking about are amazingly good for something as beautiful as what he's done. But that is normal for a rental here - 500E for a 1 bedroom place is possible.

I do not have a home like this. But I have a temporary home for a few more days or however long it will take me to gather my things up, that at least has something remotely pie-plate like. It was a flan or torte plate, or whatever these people over here like to make instead of pies. I had to use an olive oil bottle for a rolling pin, but did not have to substitute olive oil for anything in the actual pie - lol.
This mammoth pie is finishing in the oven right now. It has taken a long time because I only remember that 200 degrees is 400, but not sure about the rest.

Now I am going to go read The Number One Ladies Detective Agency. Mara has the whole set. This definitely makes it more homey.

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