I also played golf 4 times - 3 at La Torre & a trip to Hacienda Riquelme. The best of these was the La Torre Golf Society "big day" to raise some money for "Help for Heroes" which included a social evening in El Lago at La Torre.
I was fortunate to play with 3 fine gentlemen - Mark & Noel who like me are La Torre Residents and Dave Kingsland, a Geordie & Terrazas resident who was great fun to play with and who I hope to have a game with at Terrazas when I'm over next. We played pretty well together but alas no prizes.
One of the winning team was Clive Peterson from Wales, who is also a Terrazas buyer and follower of this blog. It was a pleasure to meet you Clive and your lovely wife Eve for a chat and a drink last week. Clive is a Penthouse buyer and is very close to moving in. I know that next trip over you will be staying in your own place so I hope all goes well and wish you both a happy future for your Terrazas holidays.
We had such a full two weeks enjoying the company of new friends as well as our Granada trip that I barely snatched a quick half hour at Terrazas on Sunday whilst on the way to the airport.
Sadly I didn't have time to look at the golf course but understand from the many people I spoke to that it really is coming on and should indeed open within the next month, possibly two. It appears that the building in towards the town centre is the main thing holding up the opening.
Happily I have received quite a few photos from other interested parties which include the golf course, more later.
What I did see was the Town Centre, The Old House and the work on Las Islas which is progressing rapidly from what I saw.
1) It will form two buildings in a C shape around a courtyard which will have 4 fountains and this will face down towards the lake.
2) I went up onto the roof of the TC and I really don't think they have any plans for the roof which can be accessed by stairways on each building. These seem to provide access for maintenance and are "pockmarked" with vents for air-conditioning units as far as I could see. A pity in many ways as the views would be superb. I went onto the roof of the smaller building so I suppose its just possible that they may have a possibility to do something special on the larger.
The following pic is from this roof to Las Islas and another towards the Phases 2& 12 Penthouses. Las Terrazas is certainly starting to take on a shape albeit there remains a lot for Polaris World to accomplish.
I wandered onto the smaller island and the next few pics are from there. My impression is that the islands and the lake are bigger than I had previously thought. There is nothing like some building work to give a sense of perspective although it is impossible to capture this in pictures!
Time was scarce so I didn't get as far around the island as I would have liked but I have taken a short video of the island and inside the Old House. I will post details of where to view these asap - possibly on here if possible.
The Old Manor House was worth making my first visit to and despite the continued uncertainty as to what it will finally become it is looking very interesting. It will be a restored version of what it once was and some of the original features are still in place at this point.
Again it isn't straight forward in describing what it will look like but essentially at present it comprises two large rooms on the lake side of the building, a central courtyard and an L shaped corridor running down the Phases 1 side of the building and continuing at a right angle down the end of the building furthest from the Town Centre. At the angle of the corridor there is an entrance although that may change as it appears more likely that entrances from the TC side and the island side are more likely given where the majority of properties will be.
Above and below are the two parts of the L shaped corridor
The doorway on the left leads to the room below which has a nice beamed ceiling. the opening in the centre leads out to the Town Centre side of the building.
The larger of the 2 rooms is below the "tower" below but in didn't have the time to explore it.
The following photos are supplied by Nic and they show the area and golf course around the Old House, Las Islas & the golf course nearby.
The pic above shows the House from across the lake with the small island in the foreground and the "set up" of 2 rooms on the lake side and the central courtyard can be seen.
Nic's shots of the golf course show that it is all but ready to play and my brief glimpses yesterday seemed very much to confirm that opinion.
Pretty encouraging views of the course.
The next photos are courtesy of Tim Long who has sent quite a lot!! I am going to show a representative sample here but as usual if you want to see more I always post the full albums on Picasa.
Currently there are hundreds of photos in my web albums on Picasa so if you want to see all of the photos, both mine and those sent by nine generous contributors in 37 different albums dating back to June 2008, follow the link to
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/davebangor
(You might like to bookmark the link for future updates.)
Here are a selection of Tim's photos:
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| I understand that the infinity pools are being built - the orange netting is where the pool is placed at the end of the island. |
My thanks to Nic & Tim for the photos. The Godfather is going to Terrazas on 1st September so with any luck a new update won't be too far away.
