And it never is boring! Don’t you agree? We moved here in 2000 from Rotterdam, Holland to the Termas-da-Azenha, Portugal. A big step, especially with two small children. We are busy to rebuild one of portugals cultural heirlooms: Termas-da-Azenha, an old spa which has been turned into several holiday houses, rooms and a campsite, with […]
Always the same view … Read More »
“Hey, stick! Keep your sticks to yourself! …oh … well, your jaws to yourself! You eat all the green leaves, but you leave the sticks. So weird. I get it… a walking stick eating sticks – that’s a kind of cannibalism…” Everyone likes sticky insects – walking sticks Me too, but I think it would
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The title says it all: have a nice Easter weekend everyone, have a good rest – hopefully the weather will be nice for you. April has just started. An April-Easter is the best! The most beautiful month of the year. I wish I could also let you smell how this wisteria delights our part of
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Latest news of this week: it is cold. During the day it goes well – from 11 o’clock and on it is fine. Bright blue sky, nice and warm in the sun, fine. Until about 5 o’clock, because then the sun starts to set, and it gets very cold. For us it is very cold.
Portugal at the beginning of the end of an ice age Read More »
I come from a camping family. My early holiday memories consist mainly of arriving at the campsite, picking a spot among the trees for our huge tent, and looking longingly at the swimming lake because we children had to hold a tent pole for centuries so my father could set up the “Camel”. The name
Glamping, bamping of framping – camping 2.0 Read More »
The humidity level seems like close to 150% All mirrors are steamed up and start to drip spontaneously; the labels slide off the beer bottles; a forgotten open book in the entrance slurps the moisture out of the air, causing the pages to curl. Oh, irony: it’s a cookbook, opened to a desert recipe called
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