Een heel gelukkig nieuw jaar
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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.
Volunteer Raquelli Pirelli
“I will check the train again, okay?” I say, while going out the door, “pretty sure that we can find everything on www.cp.pt. It’s quite easy!” She’s going to the south, it’s too cold here now. If you’re coming from Gran’ Canaria, a tropical island, than you’re not used to cold. It’s winter now. When
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Track and trace
My back is killing me. Everything we do at the moment is lift and bend over, bend over and lift. We’re making an archery track – I already see it all ready, but unfortunately you can’t photoshop reality. So: bend over and lift, lift and bend over. Imagine, it would be so great: just click
Bed & Breakfast & Bathrobe
Introducing: B&B&B I dream of a brown long house coat. The fabric is printed with yellow and brown stripes, with little flowers on them. They’re embroidered by gold thread. It’s a beautiful deep medium brown, like a chestnut leaf in autumn. The yellow is very modest, and the flowers and the gold thread make it
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Starbucks or real coffee?
985: The Portuguese start to get coffee from Ethiopia 986: The widow senhora Amorim da Silva sells her first cup in her coffee shop 1971: Gordon, Jerry and Zev start a coffee shop in Seattle 1985: Howard Schultz (CEO) travels to Italy and looks at the art of making coffee 1999: The heirs of the
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The Flintstone Method
“¡Mira, Ellen! ¡Nos está yendo tan bien!”, Raquel shouts at me laughingly as I watch them, filming from my sewing studio on the first floor. My back sometimes doesn’t want to participate very much, and besides: there is no room. These stones are heavy, but not so big. The three of them will succeed. They are
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Country life
It comes to me when I’m in bed in the evening. I can’t help it, the images are coming. They must have been incredibly scared. First transferred to a strange environment, where everything is different from what you’re used to. Country life instead of living in a huge shed. Better, but very different. Running outside
Butterfly garden
“Oh, it’s just a bag of flower seeds … “said my brother while showing a colorful bag,” it’s a butterfly blend – so it attracts butterflies and bees. You could have a butterfly garden. Nice isn’t it?” “Well, sow it in the village square garden, who knows maybe something nice comes out of it”, I
A scoop that goes from mouth-to-mouth
“Do you know that you have a real scoop!” Walt calls out laughing from the campsite, “We never stay somewhere longer than two nights!” I’m talking to his girlfriend Ida on the slightly overlying road. They go on the road again after three nights in the Termas. I excitedly raise both arms in the air
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