The view from the back

 Well we've sold the house, at last it seemed the longest 7 months ever ! I was knakard very Saturday morning watching my wife polish the veneer off everything just so the tyre kickers could cast an eye over our home of 28 years claim its beautiful and disappear in to the sunset.  Then .. Along can a very nice couple who also said "it's beautiful " but then came back ! The week after and the week after , our new best friends ( been in the house 4 hrs so far - might charge them rent ) made an offer and never was a hand shook so quick. 

Now not been one for the stars or fate and all that rubbish but they do say its a small world, well you couldn't write it. So I will. 

It turns out that our new best friends returned from Spain 4 yrs ago after closing their bar due to the resession even more intriguing is that he and our daughter are in the hotel trade and have worked in the same places but at different times in the UK and they actually got married where our daughter now works , would you ever ? 

So it's off to Spain , sounds idyllic , our friends say "your so lucky " even the ones we've just met seem so amenable. 

In the last 33 years I've had 1 job , 1 wife , 1 daughter, 2 houses but we was only in the first one for 1 year , as you can see I'm not one for change LoL . So as we start the second half of our lives it would seem appropriate to use the previous successful plan as a model for the next one. To that end we have rented a place in Arboleas for 11 months ?? What's that all about the agent said that you can't rent for a year ? I hope that's not a Oman - I know I don't believe in all that but would you ? .