#Turre in the #Spanish region of #Andalusia in the province of #almeria is a small but lovely little typical Spanish town Here we are walking from the new park to the 5 spouts of the fountain (one of the reasons the #Moors founded Turre where they did when they were kicked out of #Mojacar ) Sorry if I was walking a tad quick ? (if so let me know so can alter my pace in the future )(As was the first time filmed with my new body harness on ) #Spain #JoysofSpain and it was filmed during the Seista period hence been so quiet
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So the #ERSRemovals van left the ERS Base in Spain yesterday on its latest trip from Spain to the UK , but this trip is a little different
Why ? Well the Van will on Sunday be boarding the Hull to Europoort ferry to the Netherlands as it is heading to load in Den Helder That will take the number of countries that we have moved people to or from in our years of opperations to 12 England Wales Scotland Ireland Spain Holland France Italy Switzerland Spain Belgium Germany and Travelled as of Monday via 16 ports Some Facts about Spain
Lets start with the easy ones you will know Population 47.42 Million Capital Madrid Head of State : King Felipe 6th of Spain Head of Government: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (also called President of the Government ) Currency : Euro Official Language : Spanish (Casttillan ) plus Catalan (in the Catalonia region (Eg Barcelona ) Galician and Basque Main police force : Guardia Civil and Polica National (Plus most towns have Polica Local (and some regions like Catalan have the Mossos D' Esquarda ) Spain is the 2nd most visited country in Europe 2nd only to France Spain has the most high speed rail tracks by miles in Europe and is only 2nd in the world behind China, but per capita head Spain with 47.42 million people to Chinas Billion plus Spain has the most miles of High speed track per person And talking of Railways Spain has in use various Rail Gauges from 1 metre narrow gauge in Bilbo and that area (as part the regional commuter rail ) to Standard Gauge eg the high speed rail to the wide gauge Iberian Gauge tracks (plus Trams on their gauge ) The longest Motorway in Europe is in Spain to with the Autovia 7 (and the Ap7 ) at 1300 km / 810 miles Spain is home to 48 Unesco World Heritage sites Which includes the worlds oldest still in operation light house the tower of Hercules in Coruna (Galicia ) built by the Romans in 2nd century AD and standing at 57 metres / 187 feet Did you know that while it is Mothers day in the UK
In Spain it is Fathers day With 2022 coming to a close and at the time of writing this it been like 6 days to Christmas , I thought it would be a good point to look back at 2022 and review what has been going on here at ERS Removal services ltd
And 2022 has been an eventful year Where to start , and these are in no set order : 1:Well for one we have done our longest trip in terms of both miles and furthest north in 2022 with the van doing an Isle of Lewis Scotland load to Baza Spain which meant also 2 new ports that the van shipped via (port of Ullapool and Stornaway ) On the same trip the van also went to load in Germany 2: we did our largest job from the Republic of Ireland with the van going over to collect a load from their to Spain , that went into storage with us for a bit before onward delivery This also meant 2 new ports the van went via : Fishguard and Rosscoff making it 4 new ports this year the van has transited via (we have done something like 33 ferry crossings this year ) 3: We where granted our Standard international Operators Licence 4: Ashley passed his Transport manager Cpc Tests 5: we increased how much storage we can offer our customers 6: we now have done over 150 plus customs process 7 : we also added a Tors service to our offerings of Services, and talking off storage , we have as a result of our increased capacity, we have also stored the highest amount of peoples belongings in a year , we ever have 8: We also this year joined Tik Tok 9: on a sad note we also this year lost our beloved Shaggy 10: and on a sad note (but this one has a happier ending (we kinda ) let me explain , while out walking Nelson earlier this year we found 3 puppies dumped in a drainage channel , we adopted one of them our Lucy and her brother and sister are still with Paws Patas awaiting their forever homes 11: Our Youtube channel has hit over 250 hours of views and 81 subscribers 12: We have done 15 full trips on our Spain to UK back to Spain routes and several Spain to France routes 13: and our Twitter has passed 5100 plus followers , plus I have guest hosted Networking with Thrive twice this year (and have been offered a regular slot to host it in 2023 ) 14: and of course in December after many years of working together via online means (5 plus years (and as you know even wrote a blog for them last year ) We finally meet up with Mark from Purdie in person at their offices (the elf was out when we came but the Giraffe from the Giraffe around town project was in ) so since it is Halloween, I thought I would share a few of the more strange and spooky things we have here at ERS experienced when doing moves over the years.
Haunted Tree We once had a move for a customer from Spain to the UK , anyway for reasons I will not go into here the Tree was delayed in going back to the UK> So on the Trip it was going to the UK, things go strange in both the Van and at the ERS office (close to the areas the tree had been stored during the delay) Yes you might say oh no you were just putting 1 +1 together and making 3 but let me explain a few of the things 1 the Tree had the customers dead second husbands' ashes in it (which we were not aware of initially) 2 a family member back in the UK who is into that sort of thing, before been told why she was rang told us 3 whenever the whatever it was came up in conversation on the phone between the van and office the phone would go all strange electrostatic interference and when the conversation turned to anything else go normal again 4 Dad who was the driver on the van said the closer the van got to the Uk the stranger things in the van got, things that he had no memory of binning not been where he put them in both the cab and load area 5 back at base the bathroom (and not using the American sense of the word the room was an actual bathroom ) had a strange feeling (the tree had been at one point outside that room ) to such a degree when Mum (Lynne went in she froze on the spot and had to be pulled out , and a few minutes later when I went into the room I felt something, I have never in that sense felt before or since so had to leave the room and salted the door way (make of that what you will ) 6 also back at base (this was not the current ERS base by the way) and earlier in the evening think was earlier than the bathroom incident ) When reading the lords Pray , for some reason , my eyes started to water up , and would stop when read something else (maybe it was interfering maybe it was all in my mind, who knows (not me ) and I feel that to many different strange things occurred for them all to be coincidence) 7 Never got a full version of events of everything that occurred in the van but it scared dad enough that he went and got himself and the van blessed by a Preist 8 at one point Mum said to whatever it was to give her goosebumps which it did (maybe coincidence?) but when she asked the light to flicker in a certain pattern to say yes or no it seemed to also do that ) Oh and this didn't happen anywhere near Halloween either And a few hours before the main stuff when we were aware of something but not sure what (we now think there was 2 a nicer one and a more evil one with him he was battling) one of the rooms we had stuff stored in for a customer became inaccessible as the door jammed , could see the door from the window nothing was blocking , so trued to force the room open and felt like something was fighting us , until told what ever it was that stuff was nothing to do with the other customer and the tree And once was able to open the door check again and not a single item had moved to jam the door and even removed door mech to check and it was fine Due to a spate of spam comments on the websites blog section in the last few weeks , I have been forced to change the comment to approval
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