I called again this morning, still no licence but the chap promised to ring when the paperwork was finally signed off.
He did. I was surprised, nobody ever rings back. Fifteen minutes later, I was in his office to collect it.
"Excellent," I said, "What about all the other paperwork?" "What paperwork?" said he. "I've no idea but we left a bundle of the stuff when we started this process all those years ago. I have no idea what papers we left with you and what I should get back but there was a file full of the stuff stamped and sealed and I suppose we should have at least some of it."
He had no idea what I wanted, I had no idea what I was asking for and none of the other town hall people who have been involved in this tortuous process were anywhere to be seen. My Spanish was also in a state of collapse.
I'd intended to go and buy a coffee to celebrate but, instead, I drove home feeling dejected.
I suppose it's all over though. The house hasn't really changed from the original deeds so there shouldn't be any problem if we want to sell the house and the Town Hall won't be hounding us for anything because they have files with a big closed sticker on them and we do have a "Habitation Certificate" that we didn't have before. Maybe I should get the coffee after all, perhaps, with a drop of something harder to go with it!
I was going to link some of the phrases above to the history of the roof but there are so many that I'm going to put a list here. If you're interested you can see the whole story. Every date is an update on the tale. 08 May 2008 29 June 2009 01 July 2008 25 July 2008 04 August 2008 04 August 2008 07 August 2008 21 August 2008 19 September 2008 04 November 2008 24 December 2008 09 March 2009 06 July 2009 10 July 2009 (paragraphs 3 and 4) 20 July 2009 03 April 2010 21 May 2010 08 July 2011 20 July 2011
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThe Pinoso's Town Hall'll never keep record of your complaints, never replies, never really understand what you are asking for even if you ask in perfect Spanish ... You better keep a copy of everything.
ReplyDelete... But it is even worse in other places of Spain, like some villages of La Mancha, or Extremadura, the place where you wanted to go first.
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