EARLIER OCCUPANTS

In 1987 my wife and I purchased a small property in a very Spanish village - Guardamar del Segura - from an English couple who introduced us to some English ex-pat friends living about 7 kilometres away in Torrevieja. Around about 1995 my wife called me from the garden telling me that my cousin's husband was on the telephone. As, sadly, we did not have regular contact apart from Christmas cards I suspected the worst and told him so. He told me not to worry, he was only ringing to tell me he had been to our Spanish property though we had never told them of the purchase. He explained that they had gone to Torrevieja and in conversation with ex-pat friends they were told that Maria had sold her bungalow to someone named Harrington. At this my cousin Betty laughed and said "Not Les Harrington" which they confirmed. Apparently they had visited Maria some years before we purchased and the Torrevieja friends were those to whom Maria had introduced us.