moving back into town

Well the Boxing Day viewing went very well so unfortuntley for us, the finca has been sold to a vet and his wife from Seville. So we heaved all our stuff up the track to the car and moved back into town with Mum and Dad Light. We were very sad to leave the constant baaing off all the new baby lambs, but it does mean that we will concentrate more on learning spanish and hopefuly getting some gainful employment. We did get to watch our local flock gain 13 new lambs before we left which was great fun and they made the most incredible amount of noise, as did their dog who went crazy every time we did anything in the house. We have been hanging out with David and Christine at the Trueco a lot too, playing lots of backgammon, occasional music and watching terrible american tv on Portuguese channels. So life is really not too hard. Well except for having been tken for the ride of our live by the moving company. Never ever ever trust some one that you have to give a large amount of money to and then they take everything that you own hostage. We had asked all the right questions, thought we had checked out all the important facts, and then we get a call saying unless we pay $2000 they will not deliver our stuff to Spain . Aaargh, so we go and pay it. Then a week later we get a call from Barcelona saying our stuff is at the dock, we have to pay the dock fees and hire a customs agent and then pay for the stuff to go to Huelva. What do you mean the stuff is in Barcelona, the deal was that it was to go to Huelva! Well the shipping company has dumped the stuff at the dock with a COD on it and if we want to see our stuff they want another 1500 euros. So in all we have ended up paying over $6000 and still didn´t have our stuff. The nice man in Barcelona said that this is the most common thing that happens to foreigners bringing stuff into Spain and that the moving companies screw people over all the time with it. Finally a month after the original bastards said we would have our belongings, a guy with a pallet jack delivered our stuff into the street outside the ´rents house and we had to haul it up the stairs. At least we now have it and are never ever going to trust any of it to a shipping company ever again!