The last few days have been very strange. The garage have been amazing here and the guys are so friendly in a very honest and kind way. They said that I could drop the car off to them on Tuesday this week. I dropped the car off and they gave us a lift all the way back up the mariola to drop us off, They then said it would be ready today. My experience so far here lead me to stock up on large amounts of food to see us through the week as I really wasn't sure how long we would be stuck up there with out a car. No water, No people within a two hour walk, and now no car! They were great though and at 12pm today they arrived in convoy up the mariola to drop the car off to me and drive back down in their van. They had got al the work done, cleaned it and it looked amazing!  Amy gave them our thank you card that she had written in Spanish and they were so nice! In fact everyone here is lovely. I haven't met anyone not lovely, and everyone says hello and stops to talk to the children. (Much to Amy's upset) They get accosted everywhere we go by old people wanting to say hi and poke them. They really do love children here. Anyway, Here some pics from the last few days and while being stuck up there we decided to start a compost loo. We all chipped in and even the children got stuck in. Myself and Merlin came up with the design and we have yet to see if it will work...Who knows, fun building it though in the sun.

So now we have a fixed car we are planning a camping trip to the beach next week.  I need to hunt down a tent so that we can go and camp out at the beach. This could be a challenge as Spanish towns don't seem to have a town centre as such and everything is just dotted around where ever. They don't always even say on the outside what they sell or that they are even a shop! Finding a tent shop will take some doing. Anyway off to spend the weekend with the girls on the Mariola as Tony and Sharon are up for the weekend., and then we will go off to explore some of the larger towns and cities around here next week maybe. Glad to have the car back and feel like we are no back on track. I must admit I am realiy enjoying the weather and the people being so nice. Each day I meet someone lovely. I heard today that there is a cafe in the town that does English?Spanish conversational chatting on a Thursday. I might try and drop in if I can ever find it. My Spanish is still really bad and talking in joined up two year old Spanish is motivating me to try and learn a bit faster. More intercambios I think. (These are where two people chat for two hours, one in Spanish and one in English) I met someone and did this last week. It was great apart from my lack of being able to fill an entire hour with Spanish! Lots of people here are willing to do this and best of all no one pays anything! Speak soon, x