Hard work, no time for stories or pictures, but here they are!!!!!

11 mei 2010

🇮🇹 vanuit Italië

And here we are again.

I know, it's been a long time.

Where were we? Stef finally arrived indeed on Friday the 18th of April.

On Saturday we went to Allasio and Albenga, so he could have a taste of the area as well.

(Albenga)

And then........ it was time to try to get the job done before the first arrival on the 29th of April.

This mend: assembling the kitchen cupboards and trying to get them levelled as well as the fridges, which was not an easy job, considering we are in nature: stones, roots, holes and whatever more. Connecting the electricity, connecting the gas bottles. Cleaning everything, putting up the curtains, etc etc etc. We have been working like crazy to get all the 20 tents ready by the 29th of April. Yes, it was hard work, but we had a lot of fun as well.

Our 'office', the reception tent. And yes, of course with flowers, what else could we do being at the Flower Riviera?

Reception tent by night.

I consider ourselves very lucky with our first guests: they are all great. Although it is raining a lot and a lot, everybody is still in a very good mood and also the contacts between each other is nice. It is really a little square where 13 tents and our private tents and the reception are standing and it is very social and cosey.

Opposite our reception tent Vivian and Ramon are staying. They are fantastic people and they are taking good care of us. They see us working too many hours and many nights Vivian was setting the dinnertable for four and came to us telling us we had to eat. That was not a punishment at all: Ramon is a great cook and a bbq-master.

Also we spend some evenings with other guests on our square.

Thursday Astrid and Marion arrived. On the evening of the 8th of May finally my livingtent was ready and we sat down with a few people for a drink in front of my 'house'. At midnight suddenly there were balloons, candels and a little start of my birthday.

On the 9th of May we celebrated officially my birthday and it was a nice one! Some of the guests joined us, bringing presents. Astrid gave me a beautiful plant from Mom and Dad, Ramon and Vivian's present was a fish which is telling the temperature and Rene and Bettie came with an incent burner. Maybe because my tent looks like 'little Tibet' and they heard about Nepal before? From Rien and Ernie I got village salami and a tablecloth.

All and all it was a fantastic birthday at my new home.

I will put some more pictures and then I will close for tonight. Soon more pictures and more update, but now we have to go and see Ramon and Vivian, they are leaving tomorrow. They will be missed!!! We are all together already talking about a reunion next year May! Would be fun.