I’ll keep it short, dear readers, my fingers are almost falling off. Grouted all day long. That’s what gives you those fingers like sitting in a warm bath for far too long. The new mosaic at the entrance is finished! Thanks to the Ceragni coloured tiles, the mysterious maker of the angel R.Z. from A. […]
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It was quite a challenge to get this glued, dear readers! You may not be able to imagine what a challenge it was – especially if you have never mosaiced before. It was a technical transportation challenge, this mosaic That was mainly because we put it – like we often do – on a board.
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Only when I take her to the station for her return trip, we find out that Joyce was here because a friend of her neighbor knows me and said that she would end up well here. As a woman alone on holiday, you look for a trusted address “How is Jan’s caravan going?” Joyce suddenly
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An entire wall will take you about a year and a half. Not a 40-hour working week of course, and not 8 hours a day… but still, quite a few hours went into this. We think it’s a nice result, but very difficult to photograph! The mosaic is located at the front of the hotel
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“Well, I’m not absolutely sure, because I don’t take the train every day, but what I understand is that you now also have to make reservations for the IC online… “I say while we look at Astrid’s phone. We are on the site of Comboios de Portugal – the Trains of Portugal “Let’s do it
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Flashes. Rumbling. Fortunately, it is more threatening and grumbling than a real full-blast thunderstorm. Like a while ago: suddenly a huge bang in the middle of the night. Between the showers and grumbling, glueing the broken tiles to the facade After regular guest / friend Astrid went home, it’s like that. Large low hanging clouds
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Last week Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:28, spring broke out here. A few days earlier than indicated on the calendar, because spring doesn’t care what we humans think – if spring thinks it should break out, then it breaks out. And with a spring break in Portugal, everything is going very fast! As a
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“Then come around 11” I app, “’cause you do need a fair amount of time, and if the sun goes down at about 5, it’s no longer nice.”“Oooo soooo nice sitting in the sun making mosaics! What a life we have!” Paula would come and make a mosaic. In the sun, ’cause it’s a sunny
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I can still see her coming down the bathhouse path, with an unknown skinny black&white dog on a frayed rope, and her with a smiling face. “Oh no!” was my spontaneous reaction, “Nonono, I don’t want a stray dog anymore!” “But I do!” Irma replied cheerfully and unfazed, “it’s a sweetheart, and I call him
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In nature everything works together. Chickens, cats, cockroaches and snails So I’ve developed a few nice tricks together with the chickens. That is to say, with Big Mama and the Aunties, because the three others are still too young and too inexperienced to understand that I always come with good things. Evidently. The three elders
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