Pedreguer

I have enjoyed a few days of relative cakm, a chance to settle in a bit and sleep more. The good things about this particular helpx place is that there is internet whenever we want, the place is pretty and backs up against a nature park. Pedreguer is across the highway, a relatively small and quiet town but with stores.

The pictures are from the sculpting project- including a sea horse in the early pieces-of-toilet-and-sink stage. The coast view is in javea, just to the south, on an unusually hig surf day for the Mediterranean.

The down side is working with a fellow who keeps changing his plans and is not very organized, who likes to complain and blames the 'woofers' for anything and everything. He is interesting for a while, but soon his ranting about 'the multinationals' starts to get old. Maybe he is right- what do I know, but some of his assertions have detracted form his credibility somewhat. Like that American prisons use electric dog collars on the prisoners to keep them under control. (?) And that the Red Cross is a profitable foundation for the Rockefellers? ??

Pedreguer is a small, cordial but not welcoming, town on a hillside. It has a few grocery and pharmacy type stores, some bars, and of course everyone naps until 5 in the afternoon, which you realize if you are foolish enough to walk over at four to buy something.

Just lately I have personally prepared and painted six sheet metal 'sails' for wind generators, and helped the boys pick up piles of weeds that they have hacked out of the walkways.

My cell phone doesn't work here, I got another that should, but it is limited in usability as well- can call the US between 8 pm and 8 am- but usually too tired to talk at that time. Overall the whole cell phone situation here in the EU is difficult. One needs a different chip, if not phone, for each country. And only a few companies have decent coverage. The plans are complicated, and anything not specifically on the plan can be 4 euros a minute.

All that aside, I am thinking about heading south, towards Granada- I have one place in Andalucia, I just need to decide when I am ready to move on. It shall be soon!!