So here I am, a week with three pugs and a car that is still a bit sick. With “the little Puggies” as we affectionately call them, because they’re sweethearts, and with a kind of repaired car, but not completely yet. With pugs you’re not very mobile, but without a car you lose your mobility […]
In May all birds lay an egg – over there maybe, but here they have long since hatched those eggs, and the adolescent birds are ready on the edge of the nest to start their own lives. In May we always did a lot of mosaicmaking. In May – as it was before the C-risis
May Mosaic Month with an egg Read More »
“Well, this is really worth the detour,” Yvonne says appreciatively, “I’m glad I followed Henriëtte’s recommendation. Nice to have a room all to myself for a few nights. Take a break.” Yvonne walks the pilgrimage route to Fátima, with stamp booklet and al She has already done the road to Santiago de Compostela. “It’s getting
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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The mosaics in our little holiday village tend to get out of hand Why? The first phase of the entree of the bathhouse is finally ready. Four mosaics together – as a representation of what’s waiting for you in the rest of the village. It started in October, and now two huge mosaics are finally
Finally! The mosaics in our holiday village are ready Read More »
It was such a day today. It was already clear last night that the kitchen faucet had health problems. The hot water tap turned loosely and made a strange sound. It is one of the 9 kitchen faucets here in the village, and the most used. Used day in, day out; just keep on running
Confidence in our (mineral) water Read More »
I have been listening for a year to the professora of the children, during the break. After the first confusion about where the boys (in those days 6 & 8) had to go to school, it turned out that they didn’t speak much Portuguese yet. And we were not exactly fluent, even though we had
Learning portuguese, poispois! Read More »
“Gosh, she’s just rebellious”, Nico jokes at Astrid, when I – again, against all warnings – gently push a tree trunk in the bonfire, which gives a nice fire drizzle. “Exactly!” I agree, “I just like to have a homeless day tomorrow! I’ve had it with lifting roof tiles and crawling over dusty attics!” We
Restoration after restoration after Leslie Read More »
I wake up very early each morning with the quacking of ducks in the fields. Correction: I woke up every morning with the quacking of ducks, because last Sunday it woke up with this: BOOM BOOM BANG BANG BOOM BANG bang bang bang BENG BOOM POP poppoppoppoppoppop POPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOP beng pop pop pop bang bang BOOM
Lovely weather for ducks** Read More »
“What? You’re going tomorrow?” I am confused for a moment, surprised, because: “I thought the day after … ” and then happily: “Maybe you were going to move back to appartment Two, I thought … that is still 3 days free … ” Opi laughs. “Yes, that would be nice. Then we would have ended
Moving from one appartment to the other holidayhouse Read More »
