got that friday feeling nearly home and truck getting washed
sorry about the quality used my phone
welshboyinspain:
got that friday feeling nearly home and truck getting washed…
Famous last words welshboy. 
I remember thinking / saying that and the next thing I heard was…“I need you to go to italy / france / spain wherever tonight”!!! 
Tip and load monday then off for the week for “semana santa” hooray for a catholic country holidays aplenty
You’ll be getting that big pointy hat on then and carrying the virgin down the high street. Has it stopped raining yet ?.
Ex Haulier:
You’ll be getting that big pointy hat on then and carrying the virgin down the high street. Has it stopped raining yet ?.
I’m on the waiting list to do that!! the really devoted do it without shoes as well
rained last night in malaga apparently but forecast is good for the procession
welshboyinspain:
Tip and load monday then off for the week for “semana santa” hooray for a catholic country holidays aplenty
Good for you m8,im workin till wednesday then 4 days… en la playa for me 23 and sunny in Tenerife 
Hodgy67:
welshboyinspain:
Tip and load monday then off for the week for “semana santa” hooray for a catholic country holidays aplentyGood for you m8,im workin till wednesday then 4 days… en la playa for me 23 and sunny in Tenerife
hope everythings ok in tenerife hodgy you’ve had some really awful weather lately, even the banana plants suffered.
hope everythings ok in tenerife hodgy you’ve had some really awful weather lately, even the banana plants suffered.
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Yes we had two big storms here in March… i think were back to normal now. We lost the plastic roofs of our new greenhouse and glass off the older ones from the high winds but none of the cactus plants were destroyed so not to bad,hope the weather picks up for your days off in the south!!. Im a Forest fan by the way good win for Cardiff today,good luck in the playoff s 
We’ve had some really bad rain in Andalucia some villages in Cadiz and Jaen have been badly damaged people have lost everything in some cases, luckily Malaga not too bad.
the motorway between granada and murcia is partially closed because their was a landslide onto it
the motorway between Jaen and Bailen is affected the same in 2 places and just south of Jaen the motorway has collapsed and one lane is now about 100metres down the side of the mountain
but as you know we need the rain now so we can have a supply all year unfortunately the tourists prefer the sun on their week not bothered about the other 51 weeks 
That is one seriously good truck wash too. How they make any money with the time and care they take and what they charge is beyond me.
Hombre:
That is one seriously good truck wash too. How they make any money with the time and care they take and what they charge is beyond me.
was there over hour and a half, they really do a good job, leave them the kays and they’ll put it on while you have the good old menu del dia.
the cab is all done by hand and the trailer gets well looked after too, the younger lad loves to do my alcoa wheels on the trailer.
the owner went to school with julio, rafa’s son so we always go there but how he manages to only charge 35.85 including IVA is unbelievable.
The one over the road is good too, but as theres only usually one bloke it can take even longer - price is the same I think.
For the uninitiated the truckwash in WB’s picture is at Restaurante Paraiso just west of Granada near the pueblo of Fuensanta - sorry I cant remember the km number though. The restaurant is very good and it has a Repsol service station with high pressure air should you need it.
According to Google this is the address:
Carretera Granada-malaga, KM 212, 7
18370 Moraleda De Zafayona, Spain
TBH mark the one across the road is garbage, the brushes don’t work you have to drive back and fore along them not advisable with digi tacho 
the wooden shack is very good though for meals and the blonde waitress
ye know sumthin WBISP , fair play to ye doin what ye doin , in Spain, for whatever reason it didnt pan out where you lived in the UK, ye got off ye backside an did sumthin about it.
did ye have much Spanish before ye went there ? did ye find it difficult to get fixed up with a job ? had ye lived there before ?
More importantly have ye settled there ? how do the Spanish treat ye ?
sorry for being nosey but I think you have set a great example for who others who may wish to follow suit.
Gud luck to ye
routier:
ye know sumthin WBISP , fair play to ye doin what ye doin , in Spain, for whatever reason it didnt pan out where you lived in the UK, ye got off ye backside an did sumthin about it.did ye have much Spanish before ye went there ? did ye find it difficult to get fixed up with a job ? had ye lived there before ? More importantly have ye settled there ? how do the Spanish treat ye ?
sorry for being nosey but I think you have set a great example for who others who may wish to follow suit.
Gud luck to ye
plenty of questions there routier well here goes,
too many reasons about leaving the UK but mainly the influx of workers lowering the average wage, the influx of islam becoming more respected than thousands of years of christianity and tony blair (good enough reason on his own)
spoke reasonable amount of spanish from holidays and trucking before coming to settle, very first job was a maintenance man and the other worker spoke no english so i was thrown in at the deepend he would point at something and say the word i soon learned what he was saying now my boss speaks no english and after 6 years i feel confident enough to say i am fluent
i think we’ve settled, my daughter was born here 3 years ago and is in the spanish education system, we eat the “foreign food” and shop in spanish shops, most importantly being seen to socialise with spaniards in the community helps rather than drink in english bars and shop in iceland
the spaniards i know treat me how i treat them, i earn the same, pay all my taxes and have a mortgage so although being born welsh i’m just like they are except the nice tan most of them have
IMHO if you want to be accepted anywhere you have to fit in with the locals, this is not just in spain but even those entering the UK from all points on the globe if you accept the locals way of life and don’t push your own down their throats you’ll get on regardless of nationality or religion
Alto Platano