aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh the sweet soundsof summer!!! lol!

xabiachica · #1 (**permalink**) 3rd June 2010, 04:58 PM

my 2 girls are in the communal pool

so are a couple of English kids on holiday here

so are the 2 new Spanish kids who moved in downstairs this week

jeez it's noisy!!

but it's lovely noise - you can't beat the sound of kids enjoying themselves

I wonder how long before my 2 get fed up with translating though

xabiachica · #2 (**permalink**) 3rd June 2010, 05:30 PM

well that didn't last long...................

rain, thunder & lightening!!

Pesky Wesky · #3 (**permalink**) 3rd June 2010, 08:58 PM

No pool yet, doesn't open until the second half of June usually, but certainly the weather for it.
Not like last year, is it??
Is it going to be a really hot summer? Seems like it. What about the UK? Anybody know??

MaidenScotland · #4 (**permalink**) 3rd June 2010, 10:52 PM

Yes nothing better than the sound of kids saying goodnight mum lol x

xabiachica · #5 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

No pool yet, doesn't open until the second half of June usually, but certainly the weather for it.
Not like last year, is it??
Is it going to be a really hot summer? Seems like it. What about the UK? Anybody know??

the weather where my dad is (bedfordshire) is in the low 20's at the mo - so maybe they'll get a summer

the long term predictions I've heard for Spain are that it will be 3-4 degrees hotter than last year - so a hot one!

the main difference seems to be that the past couple of summers have been sudden - not a gradual warming up as we're used to - then over just as suddenly in September!

Derek H · #6 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Pesky Wesky

Is it going to be a really hot summer? Seems like it. What about the UK? Anybody know??

Lovely day here yesterday, mid 20's. Same today. Maybe a Summer ? Live in hope ( and in Northampton ). Fingers crossed

Derek

jimenato · #7 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 05:53 AM

And the smells of summer!

The gardeners have been out mowing the public lawns in our village - the fantastic smell of new mown grass (with a hint of 2-stroke exhaust fumes) is a real give-away that summer is here.

#8 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 06:26 AM

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And the smells of summer!

The gardeners have been out mowing the public lawns in our village - the fantastic smell of new mown grass (with a hint of 2-stroke exhaust fumes) is a real give-away that summer is here.

I remember that from Scotland

for me here in Spain, the sound of summer starts when I hear my first bee eater I love the sound.

The noise from kids around is normally shouting screaming or whinging I hardly ever hear actual laughter.

xabiachica · #9 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by MaidenScotland

Yes nothing better than the sound of kids saying goodnight mum lol x

that's my favourite

mrypg9 · #10 (**permalink**) 4th June 2010, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by xabiachica

that's my favourite

Me too. Being a grumpy old sod I tend to view the old 'seen and not heard' maxim with great approval.

This thing about communal pools not opening until mid-June is daft imo. The pool in the urb where we stayed for four months (quite enough, thankyou) didn't open until June 15th and closed on September 15th, regardless of weather.
Many of the pisos were rented out (one of the many reasons it didn't suit us, too much coming and going at all sorts of unsociable hours) and I feel sorry for people who have come for a Whitsun break in the sun and can't swim in the pool.
The pool hours were also restricted from 10.00 until 20.00 which is a shame as it's lovely being able to swim before breakfast or under the stars at midnight on a balmy summer's night.
Is there a reason -some law perhaps -for these opening times? It seems they are common across Spain, not just in the place we lived when we first came here.
I know there is some new legislation about lifeguards and that will be a problem for the place we lived in as they had a deficit of over 50000 euros last year which led to the electricity being cut off once so there were no lights in the gardens or shared spaces, lifts and garage doors didn't work, no satellite tv...imagine that happening during the World Cup

I'm sure there are some very nice urbs and maybe we were unlucky but that experience really put us off.
It wasn't cheap either at 900 euros pcm.
I think the problem was that only around 10% of the pisos were occupied full-time by owner-residents. Absentee landlords have little reason to monitor noise and anti-social behaviour such as all-night drinking sessions on communal lawns.