Juzcar, pronounced 'hooth-car' or 'who-th-car' or as I like to say, 'whose-car?'. Have I put a photo of this village on this blog yet... I think not so here's a photo of Juzcar.
This is the first photo of the village that I took on the day that we passed through the village after viewing the hotel for the first time back in August 2004. We arrived in Spain from London on 12 August 2004. By 30 August we had identified this property here in Juzcar as the one we would most likely purchase and low and behold here we are... a bit more than two years later.
The hotel had been for sale for a while and the previous owner was desperate to sell it, or so we are told. He had lots of debts and his wife did not want to stay in Juzcar where he was from. they also had three children attending school in Malaga so on the block the hotel went.
The hotel had been for sale for a while and the previous owner was desperate to sell it, or so we are told. He had lots of debts and his wife did not want to stay in Juzcar where he was from. they also had three children attending school in Malaga so on the block the hotel went.
We got the contract agreed by the end of September, early October, which actually wasn't that long. We arrived in Juzcar on 12 October 2004, after a long holiday weekend. One mistake I think we made was not to come back here again after our initial visit. Very green we were... it didn't even dawn on us that we should have done a bit more research but then again had we done that, we probably would not have come here. I don't regret our purchase of this hotel but I do wish we had done more research before we arrived.
This is what the exterior of the hotel looked like in the first days after we arrived in Juzcar...
Notice how boring the terrace looks... no plants on the outside of the railing, no tables or chairs, a curtain hanging in the window over looking the terrace, an ugly restaurant sign with arrow, not many plants on the terrace. What you don't see is that the doors to the bar are opaque so one cannot see inside nor from inside to the outside... strange I thought to have it so. And the bar was equally boring with ugly things hanging on the walls, not much personality.
So we've made a few changes for the better since we arrived but as we look at the old photos now and see what we have achieved and what we want to do still, we just don't know when we will be able to afford to get the changes made. Poco a poco as they say here.
So we've made a few changes for the better since we arrived but as we look at the old photos now and see what we have achieved and what we want to do still, we just don't know when we will be able to afford to get the changes made. Poco a poco as they say here.
Here's a photo of the terrace in September 2006...
Much better now, no?
