This week, when I go to bed, I see this: Then you go to sleep peacefully, or what? The next morning it’s just as beautiful. All fields under water, that’s good for the plants and bad for the pests such as langoustines and you name something else that eats up the young plants. Frogs love […]
Vegetable garden yoga Read More »
If they happen to dig me up in a few hundred years, they are bound to break their heads over the two grooves in my skull. Just behind the ears. They’ll probably call it eyeglass slots and explain to you what glasses are Because by then they can easily turn a few old people into
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My dad used to say that. “Oo-how-ooo” (skipping voice) I’m getting a baby over this!” if something didn’t work out, bothered him or if something else didn’t go as it should. He didn’t really get a baby from it, of course My mother did the heavy lifting in that area. Anyway, I probably won’t tell
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“We actually have quite a bit in common,” I pondered on the way home from the vet in Coimbra, “all three of us are old, not so beautiful, with a good heart and we just keep on going.” Back home from the third visit with the dog to the vet at the Hospital Veterinário Universitário
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Now, I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only Portophile alive. Beg pardon – what’s a Portophile, you ask? Simple, same thing as a Francophile but then for Portugal. Someone who appreciates the portuguese lifestyle, the language, the country, the traditions, the art, music … no need to sum up everything, you get my point.
A Portophile organizing a Portugal Festival Read More »
The only lucky guy I know who can borrow a car from his friends while on vacation here is called Koos. (Sorry people, he’s a dutch guy, so he has a dutch name … ) He once was a volunteer here, and to my surprise arrived with a car with a portuguese license plate –
Renting a car without a credit card – how do you do that? Read More »
I thought I was smart. After sleeping a dent in 4 mattresses in a few years, I got a bright idea. I thought. Turned out a bit differently than I expected … I’ve been sleeping in the same bed for nearly 30 years – but not with the same mattress, of course The bed once
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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 »
The phone rings. A friend of Augusto’s, whom I know vaguely. I’m not very good at remembering names or faces (very strange: sometimes I remember a name, sometimes a face – so I don’t really have an excuse like face blindness or dyslexia or something) but since people walk around masked it’s getting more difficult.
A room with or without breakfast in and for August 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 »
