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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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Hate Mildew & Erineum Mite – Love Pallets – From the global aldea Mer (Galicia)

lifeingalicia — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:24:40 +0000

There is never a dull moment here in rural Galicia and the Ribeira Sacra. The diggers have left, the guests have left and it’s back to “normal”. This translates into working on the ever growing list of tasks and trying to fight nature to get a reasonable crops of grapes and veggies of course. I [...]

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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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Stone, brick & lime – A facelift – Worth every minute I spend on it

lifeingalicia — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:11:04 +0000

Just using lime can give a tiered looking house a great facelift. Using just existing stone, bricks and pre mixed lime Casa de Flores received a great new look.

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Siesta time – Time to build water features – what else?

lifeingalicia — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:55:48 +0000

Great, the thermometer just hit 32C in the shade. It’s being really hot for the last couple of days. After two year in rural Galicia, I can say that we shift towards the “typical Spanish” timings. This results in my dear wife getting up just after sun rise to water the plants, whilst I start [...]

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