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Shaun the sheep on the roof – Happy new year

lifeingalicia — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:03:50 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Wallace and Gromit you may not know Shaun the sheep. Here is a clip to tell you about it. Quite a while ago I heard of the availabilty of sheep wool as insulation. I thought “great idea” talked to some people about it, read about it and promptly forgot it. [...]

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Kitchen upgrade for verano en rural Galicia

lifeingalicia — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:03:43 +0000

The chef was wanting a decent oven. “I can’t properly regulate the temperature and anyway the oven is too small…..” As I like to eat, who am I to argue? We went to local and not so local “tiendas de concina” but even in the catalogues nothing was inspiring. It is slightly complicated by the [...]

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National press – A stone & the difference some years make

lifeingalicia — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:27:54 +0000

Two weeks ago we made it into the national press. El Pais, a bit like the Times, featured an article about us in their Saturday edition. De la aldea rural a la global Translated it would be the global little village. Xurxo, who is a well known photographer and journalist visited us one Saturday and [...]

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The quiet life in rural Galicia – I wish!

lifeingalicia — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:39:01 +0000

OK,Ok, I know. No blog for a long time and I’m sorry about this. To think that there is a quiet life in rural Galicia, just sitting back, let it rain and sip the excellent wines of the Ribeira Sacra, at least for us, couldn’t be farther from reality. Amongst a lot of other tasks [...]

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Casa de Flores is now registered – Casa in rural Galicia Ribeira Sacra No. 101

lifeingalicia — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:07:00 +0000

Finally we have come round to officially register the Casa de Flores in the provincia of Lugo as a casa vacacional in the Ribeira Sacra. Considering the usual bureaucracy it is a reasonable painless process. It costs Euro 9,85 for the registration. Expect to fell a tree to gain the required amount of paperwork and [...]

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