Weekly blog about holiday rentals and B&B Termas-da-Azenha, in an old spa resort in the Coimbra district. Only 12 km from the coast as the crow flies.
It’s April. It’s spring – but you had already noticed that. There is reasonable weather in the north, like here, so if you have a little farmer’s wisdom, you know that it’s time for the vegetable garden. We’re busy with that, with that vegetable garden. What the hell does that have to do with soccer […]
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“Hey, there you are again!” I greet the girls as I turn my office chair in their direction, “thankfully, a change from all that sitting behind the computer!” The interns Forensic Studies are less impressed than I am by the change in everyday life They’re young and therefore not a stranger to sitting behind the
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In Portugal it’s actually going well with corona – if you can say it like this There are two reasons for this: the government announced measures early, and the population stayed home even before that. From their corner of the european continent, the portuguese saw the virus approaching. When it arrived in Spain, Portugal knew:
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Gotspe How can you, as prime minister of a country in need, abandon other countries? How the minister of finance currently is lecturing other hard-hit countries! What a move to block hundreds of billions from the European emergency fund now. Hopefully you will be sitting on a southern terrace again. Then you praise all those
Europe – aid from north to south Read More »
No guests – plenty of time to study a few things. What we’re doing: knowing more about cryptos, writing, marketing, growing your own vegetables, enjoying beautiful fabrics for the kimonos. I came across a writer’s challenge – from a copywriter Great, I want to learn to write better. This was indeed a challenge from the
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uʍop ǝpısdn pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ Togetherness – that is the predominant feeling here in our village. We are with twenty, and they all have a special name: the German family, another German family, an English couple, a Portuguese couple, the two students, Paul and the three of us. Nice group to survive the crisis Honestly –
The world upside down Read More »
You can find everything on YouTube. And you often don’t remember how you got there. Oh well, doesn’t matter. This was a great documentary – I never watched a documentary about Lisbon for an hour. Usually that’s a list of things you must have seen, or just boring. But this was different. Sparkling from the
Lisbon and blogger José Cabral Read More »
There. I thought I had it well under control. Everything perfectly planned. The new students would arrive mid-March. Mid March is on my calendar towards the 15th. Not so strange that I think: fine, then I can easily go to the Netherlands from 7 – 14 March. Cuddle with my oldest son, and visit family
Amiable portuguese, but favourably not with corona Read More »
“The poorer the soil, the more diversity” says Ellen cheerfully. We have the same name, and we have more in common. I get a master class in “What to do with a wild garden” – an unexpected development in an expected visit. A typical case of word of mouth recommendation My cousin Judith is a
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You probably don’t want to read a blog about spring cleaning, dear readers, but that’s actually the only thing we’re doing now This doesn’t only apply to the accommodation; we’re also going to get a new site! The site is being completely renovated. It turned out that our theme was no longer supported, and then
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