One problem found and resolved and another would appear !
The electrics turned out to be rubbish ! If we plugged too much in the whole lot went ! We called in our Christmas angel to sort it out, fingers crossed !
The gas cooker had to be moved, not much, but thought it best to speak to the town hall before we touched gas, but they said didn't know a gas fitter and to do it ourselves. We brought the piping and Mr W fitted it, the piping seemed to be a little longer than we needed, but sure it would be fine, wouldn't it ?
We now had a kitchen, a fridge with shelves and all the things you need in a kitchen.
We had put up shelves and base units in the bar area so we had somewhere to put the spirits and glasses.
The suppliers kindly gave us fridges, freezers, glasses, serviette holders. We brought a glass washer from one of our suppliers, it was second hand but the payments where spread and it would do the job ! We had brought two tables and chairs but still needed more, the beer supplier said we could have some closer to summer !
We started to look for a till, the one I really wanted was a high text computer one but it was almost five thousand euros, out of the question. We found this odd little shop in Baza, full of fridges and odd second business stuff, they sold anything you could want new and a few odds and sods second hand. I saw a till in the window so we went in, it was old and the till receipt bit didn't work but for 50€ who cares, it would more than do what we needed !
The tobacconist put in a cigarette machine, we didn't want people going to a different bar to get fags and not coming back, once they were in ! Especially as you could still smoke in bars in Spain at that time.
We were moving towards opening quickly, I made up posters, with the help of Steve. For the Grand Opening night, we would put on food. Barry has always had a passion for music, so we brought a computer system and speakers that would fill the bar with music.
We also put a TV in, mainly for the football.
I put the posters all over the town, in every shop and on every tree on the tree lined street running through town ! We advertised in the English free papers and already had a crowd coming !
Fingers crossed our opening would be a success, we really wanted to start with a Big Bang!