A flooded Hotel Molino del Puente The Hotel Molino del Puente, where we planned to have Christmas Lunch and New Years Eve Party, was another casualty of the local flooding. All Christmas bookings had to be cancelled as the river burst its banks and two-metre high water levels wreaked havoc on their hotel.
The hotel is owned by English friends of ours, Ian and Elaine Love and they told us how their neighbours “waded up to their waists in mud” to help them clear-up. Whilst the damage is extensive they now hope to use the opportunity to give the hotel a face lift and re-open it in time for Valentine’s Day weekend.
Not for the first time, Nigel and Ginny Cobb stept into the breach and saved Christmas Day by inviting 25 of us to lunch at their house in Parchite, which included the Love family and a few of their guests and miraculously managed to get everything together in less than 24 hours notice.
Everything turned out superbly and it will be a Christmas that we will remember for a long time to come.
Table setting for Christmas lunch
The Love family during happier times
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