HE DID IT!

Restoring the past

LA NUCIA Town Hall is currently restoring the old washhouse in what is now the tourist attraction of Fuente de Favara. During the €500,000 project, which will take four months to complete, the children’s swings, picnic area and waterfall will be fenced off as the work is undertaken.

As in so many other Costa Blanca villages, local women did their laundry the hard way at a roofed washhouse fed by the Fuente de Favara stream.

After it fell into disuse in the 1970s, the town hall resurfaced the area, covering over the washhouse’s long trough which came to light last year when repairs were carried out at the public toilets.

“After finding that the structure was there and in good condition, we decided to restore it,” La Nucia’s mayor Bernabe Cano said.

mented Lin di Stefano, Akira president. Much of his training for the walk was done in a gymnasium on board a ship, as Calpe resident Lee works for a company installing offshore wind turbines in Asia.

“I had to reach the point where my body could cope with walking 40 kilometres a day,” he said. “It was hard, I admit, to go to the gym having done a

12­hour shift.”

“I’m grateful to everyone who has donated and for every single euro,” he said. “I’ve been blown away by all the words of support every day of the walk. It kept me going when the going got tough!” There is still time to donate on Lee’s https://gofund.me/b8fc3014 GoFundMe page.