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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Stephanie and Paddy are searching. For houses. Affordable houses. This now seems to be a major problem in half of Europe, due to the significantly increased number of greedy landlords everywhere. In the meantime, they will stay here for a while and their family will come to visit them. Visiting family is a celebration if
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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 had everything ready for the two unexpected guests who like to do a mosaic wqrkshop “I already know what I’m going to make,” he said enthusiastically, “the symbols for the elements.” Nicole makes a disappointed face: “Oooo, I wanted to do that!” They look at each other and laugh. Me too. “If you are
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When this one’s finished (well, it is, almost! Just some finishing touches), I thought it was time to do the whole facade of the bathhouse, village-square-center-side. This little corner is next to our little café. You’ll see it when you go up the stairs. Time for a new mosaic project A friend would come, and
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