Technical Terrain Things

7am, Thursday, 29th November.

We visit the major who is already at work. Plenty of people we know have been going to him to have land title issues finalised. We find out that Friday is the cut-off date for this mayor. A new mayor is to be installed in Jan for four years and the current system closes new land business on Friday. We're in by the skin of our teeth if he has had time to correct our document. And what about this technicality he needs to explain.

As we wait we can see a big map of El Remate land plots on his wall. We can see ours. It officially exists!

The mayor brings us our papers. Our nationality is now tippexed to English.

The technicality - he tells us we must take this to the land office to a man called Elme and not to the town mayor. Elme is a man we know from Tuesday and is actually one of our land neighbours! That's it.

So Friday we will go to see Elme, with how long a queue? Then we'll visit a lawyer.