Looking at these pictures it’s hard to imagine that it was nearly two months ago when we last posted on this blog. Maybe things might have progressed further but there was little point rushing anything as important as allowing the concrete to go off properly when the holiday season was coming to an end anyway.
We’re confident though that come April 2023, Genista will be ready for visitors to come, stay and enjoy Puglia throughout the spring, summer and autumn. So what are we looking at here? The picture at the top of this blog is the swimming pool after fitting the lining. You may ask why does it look a sort of sandy beige colour when traditionally pools are coloured light blue. Three to four years ago, the regulations for building swimming pools in the Valle D’Itria were made more strict in order to preserve the authenticity of the region while allowing the tourist industry to continue to continue to grow. Consequently pools are not allowed to be plain azzure blue anymore in order that they blend in better with the landscape.
We think you’ll agree from the sample photograph above of this lining actually in situ that the end effect is a very calming and pleasing one. We are extremely happy we chose the one we did. By the time this post goes live the process of back filling will have been completed and we can then start the paving around the edges.
When we visit in a week’s time we hope to be able to report that that particular process will have begun. Maybe we’ll be finished by Christmas but December and January are notoriously slow months in Italy but we can hope.