Prima Donna Citroen

2 June 2010

Took the car around to the Citroen Repairer here in Alhama and the boss (Antonio) told us to leave it with him for an hour or so. I was able to show him a copy of the email I had composed to Citroen in Granada so he understood the problem.

When we returned the car was plugged into the computerised diagnostic equipment. Antonio eventually turned up to give us the report but of course we couldn't understand a word of it. With great patience he told us to wait a minute and after making a phone call drove off with his mechanic. After awhile a young lady showed up and asked us if we were the people having trouble with their car. She was Lisa from England and worked in a local real estate office - apparently Antonio had phoned her to help him explain to us about the car. So soon Antonio returned and the interpretation process began. It turned out that the diagnostic equipment showed no fault at all and Antonio thought it was just a glitch (my word) with the car being new. Anyway he was quite happy to hear we were living in Alhama and said to bring the car back if the warning light came on again. When we drove off I noticed that the warning light was no longer showing so just the act of plugging the car into the diagnostic device seemed to have reset the system. Which was good as having a serious warning light about an engine misfunction is not the best thing to be looking at when you are driving.

The good new that this ill wind blew in was that Lisa told us that she gave Spanish lessons to a small group every Wed morning for a couple of hours. So we are going to drop in next week for some Spanish practice.


Later we went for a drive to Fuente Vaqueros a small town near Granada where the Spanish poet Federico Garci Lorca was born and where his birth house is a museum. However, after giving 'Sofia' a few navigation headaches we found the house but with no sign of it being any longer a museum. We are theorising that the Lorca Museum in Granada (where he had his summer house) has absorbed all the artifacts from his birth house. We will try to confirm this when we visit Granada.