With the girls in tow for a supposed period of pre-exam study we drove the 845 miles that it is from door to door instead of flying in order to take with us some further bits we had accumulated for the villa.
Paolo, our architect, had reported to us earlier in the month that the hard landscaping work we had scheduled had started but we had no idea exactly what had been done or whether the soft landscaping in the form of turfing or planting had started.
We arrived to find some good progress had been made on the hard landscaping including a completed 'Aioula' mentioned in my last blog and also some low walls to separate the turfed area from that to be planted.
You can just see the 'Aioula' in this picture taken from the road above the villa.
Aldo, the plumber, had mostly completed the irrigation, but, disappointingly, other than the delivery and spreading of some new soil, there was no sign of any plants or grass.
When we saw Paolo the next day he did explain that the soil would need time to settle before the turf was laid. Accepting this as a more than reasonable excuse the disappointment reduced.
Here is a close-up of the Aioula showing one of the low walls and the start of the path/steps to the pool hut.
We did a number of things during our stay with my time dominated with sorting the broadband/wifi connection which I finally achieved on day 5 after resolving a problem caused by vodafone incorrectly registering the equipment.
I could easily have stayed but a party back home celebrating the Royal Wedding beckoned!
Note to self: Return soon.
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