Preparing for their future

The Swedish couple is leaving on Saturday after a week here. They'll drive 25 hours straight, alternating sleeping, and taking only quick food and potty stops. They do have 25 minute ferry ride. They are renovating Antoinette’s old house.

Antoinette died last summer at 91. She was an old Catalan woman who sat on her chair outside the door snapping her beans and telling everyone how she didn’t feel well. Each day she walked to the cemetery to visit with her husband. Neighbors said she was making up to him for driving him so hard in life.

The house is a huge Catalan house opening on two streets.

All houses have a problem with damp first floors that causes paint to flake no matter what kind of paint or what kind of surface unless there is year around heat. The man thinks he has found a solution by digging up the floor and laying a special subfloor. On all his holidays he is here with his wife and children. Cartloads of dirt have been shoveled out. They will be back for three more weeks at the end of the summer.

As the couple took a break with me at Franck’s café he talked about the possibility for not waiting until retirement to move down here permanently but to open a construction business.

As they say, on verra.