Mar
16
Written By
kenh
Friday, 16 March 2007
Slow start to the day as we rise from our respective day after travel beds. Look around Graig and Fionas workshop which is extensive and marvel at the quality and diversity of work in the place, not to mention the fork lift and beautiful stone building that is the workshop and office space. Ive learned more in half hour just looking at this set up than bodging up my own place for years.
Such is the life of teaching yourself in isolation.
Drove to Cotton Tree Park via the freeway of the Sunshine coast. Its gangbusters here, with development , development, development. This place will be terrible in twenty years if not sooner. Lets not dwell on the negative.
The stone is amazing and not as hard as I thought, it seems a little softer that Carrara and more grainy, with a courser texture. Simona reckons it’s more like Greek Marble. I don’t know because I’ve never seen Greek Marble in the flesh only pictures in a book. Tomorrow we start, so tonight it’s a early to bed after some shopping and house keeping, breakfast materials and the like. Coffee coffee for the Italians, musli for me and eggs and Bacon for Fong.
Fong is the other Aussie, met him today and he seems like a great fella. He’s the sort of bloke you take an instant liking to. Lives about half an hour from here near Craig and Fiona, in fact they can see each others house from ridge to ridge. Simona is quick to laugh and a dark haired beauty, and I’m sharing with her and Luca when he gets here. Fiona only found out that Luca was coming from Tehran this morning. Emerats airline wouldn’t give out any details of passenger lists etc over the phone. Lucia didn’t respond with any emails to usor his wife. Visa problems seemed to plague him in Iran and they wouldn’t let him out of the country. All solved at 8.15 this morning when information was received that he was on the plain, you should have seen the change in Fiona’s body language when the news got through that he was in the country.
We are settled into the beach House in Maroochydore for the night. Luca will be here in the morning with Craig. Tired but excited, ready to go tomorrow.
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