Hacienda

And that night before, we were at the...

We had our wedding at the Hacienda here.

The first wedding.

Our first wedding.

like the hacienda where we were staying

so the taxi was telling us he's like oh this is a very um even getting there like the road he's like this is very what's the what's the word

colonial the lady that that that helped us at hacienda Ex Hacienda La Petaca, where we had our reception or our wedding.

Historical, sorry.

A mountain.

Hacienda de los Martinez Museum.

What? I was just like, you just said

that

That's how it's pronounced.

I know, I know, I know, I know.

Hacienda means house.

Taos

I think that when a buyer has been to your farm and they've met your family and they've seen your land, the relationship can be completely different from one that exists only through email or maybe WhatsApp messages, and that can be a really special connection that can last years.

years.For example, that is why Diego from Haciendas, he loves farm visits

Estar muy abierto a recibir a personas en tu finca.

O sea, yo nunca le he dicho a alguien que no puede venir

They ended up selling Mark Hughes, partly, and a bridge to the mega success that started in the year after, really.

But also, at the same time, you talk in your book about Manchester as a city and kind of place the Cup... winners cup run in context and this is like just before the sort of Manchester era isn't it and the Hacienda and all of that

yeah again you know speaking to people that were I mean because I was I was seven sort of eight seven seven eight years old during that season so I certainly wasn't in the Hacienda but you know a lot of people were saying that The culture was, the society was changing as well, you know, from sort of the 80s, you know, the doom and gloom of the 70s and the 80s and Thatcher, you know, obviously a lot of hooliganism in football and the stadiums were falling apart and, you know, obviously the disasters that happened and...

And just probably a bit of a grim couple of decades in many ways.

And then you get the dawn of the 90s, you know, the World Cup in Italy.

And I mean, England obviously didn't win the World Cup, but when they came home, there was just a bit more of a upbeat feeling, I guess, about football.

And maybe that was a mirror on society as well.

The people that I spoke to that were, you know, were sort of late teens and early twenties at the time were talking about how Things like the Hacienda and just the general kind of culture of going out.

It's amazing here.

And, and kind of was talking about how, like when I pulled up, like Lauren was saying, it's the Hacienda.

I was like, oh, it's gotta be this place.

Yes.

What especially intrigued Greg, though, was that instead of the usual come-and-visit-me note, the letter from McDougall hinted that there was some high jinx going on in Cruzangelo.

Anyway, we had left the airport and driven way inland to Tom's Hacienda, where the foreman greeted us.

Bienvenido, senor y senora Collins.

Welcome.

We've got to get to Lorna McDougal.

Bring her back here as soon as possible.

We drove to the Hacienda, picked up Lorna, and made all speed back to Granite's place.

As we walked through the huge entrance, across the tiled floor.

moments that are meant to be funny.

Scene jumps to McBride and his men watching the Hacienda's activity.

Scene cuts to

Brown and his men in the truck and they're making charges as they arrive to this small camp.

He just walked in this room and said, Shit don't feel right.

Let's roll.

Everyone at the Hacienda.

has heard the blast the two squad mates outside the hacienda move in to regroup with mcbride they think the coast is clear but a man from a window and the gardener yes the gardener pulls out an assault rifle