Saturday 15 March 2008

Another spectacular day in the Upper Genal Valley. Brilliant sun, blue skies, birds singing!

The pool is finished being built and so is just about ready for use. We began to fill it this passed week but we are still awaiting the arrival of our filtration system and until that is here, we cannot fill the pool completely. Here is a photo of the area early last week:


It's a bit more full than this now but not complete.... and it's not big pool.... one of my sisters said in an email, "looks small, how many people does it fit?" I thought, "not so many actually" but we are small hotel and I really doubt we will have the hotel full with everyone wanting to be in the pool at the same moment so not to worry.

We have bought a whole bunch of plants and flowers and one can see the Yucca tree we already planted in the rear between the lemon tree and the wall. We've also planted some bambu and all the plants and flowers are laid out waiting to be planted. It is taking shape. In one of the photos, one can see the fountain on the wall side edge of the pool. It now has a mosaic on it that Ivan made in blue and white tiles.

Ivan also recently installed a couple of mosaics in the lavatories of the bar. Here are a couple of photos of that work:

The Blue Dragon is in the men's while....


the warm sun is in the ladies.

Ivan has recently also painted all of the rooms. One wall in each room has been painted in primary colors. I'll put some photos in the coming days.