The swimming pool...?

The water tank now has its full depth, (a max of 3.3 metres below the level of the ground floor of the house) which seems perfect for diving into for us! No can do though. Shame. Over the next few days we have to decide whether the water pump is going to be solar powered or electric. The former... right? Even though it is three times the price or so.

Here's a snap of José and his brother taking the last few barrowloads of earth out.

And here's the windy path leading up from the garage, now that it has walls, yet to be finished and we're hoping it'll look much friendlier when we put some greenery in.

The House stage has begun!

It's been a while since we last updated this, but things are moving on well, thanks in part to much better weather and we've now got three great builders on the job.

As you can see in the photos, the winding path which we showed earlier isn't yet finished but now leads into a path that heads straight up to the house. The house's layout and position is now finalised and perhaps you can make out in the photos the strings which mark the level of the (ground) floor. It's nice and high so that we get a great view from all parts of the house and hopefully it'll poke out into the sunshine too...

The big dug out section is going to be the water tank for all the lovely Xalapeño rain water!