Benefits of Life in New Zealand - 3 - Missed The Race!
June 4, 2007 on 10:35 pm | In New Zealand | 2 CommentsDue to compete in the club’s 10km race this past Sunday, however on Friday my back locked. I was sitting on the stairs tying up my laces prior to the last training run with the club when the back muscles went into such spasms I could hardly breathe. Luckily my husband was able to pull me up! I still foolishly drove to the club and completed a ‘gentle’ run, hoping the exercise would loosen up the whole back system. My legs had little power and by Sunday morning just taking a step made the bottom of the back groan. So instead of race entry fees I’m paying for another session with the osteopath….my husband’s parting remark on this matter was ‘perhaps you’re just too old’….
Diary of a Downshifter - Part 4
June 4, 2007 on 9:19 pm | In Journey Through Spain | No CommentsAfter stalling this potential thief who was the owner of the supermarket in the nearby village of Los Romanes, we contacted our lawyer. Once you have a set of deeds in Spain, you can keep them, even after you have sold the property. New deeds are made up for the new owner and in the deeds register, it is only these latest dated deeds that count. The grocer had simply tried it on with a set of old deeds and a letter from the lawyer threatening a court case shut him up immediately. He assumed that we were rich and ignorant and found that we were neither. We had passed the first of many tests that would try us in Spain. Sometime after this event, we mentioned the incident to some Spanish friends who far from being surprised actually said, “Well he had to try didn’t he. He owns a supermarket. He is an important man!” It was our first realisation that, however well you thought you knew these people, their 1000 years of different history to ours just made them think so very differently. It was a continuing theme throughout our time in Spain.
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