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Dementiaville

The first thing that went through my mind, when I read this article in The Independent, was that “Dementiaville” must be just like the village (Portmeirion) which the British cult TV series “The Prisoner” was set in. The Prisoner, an involuntarily retired British secret agent, was held in a village at an unknown location . . . → Read More: Dementiaville

Low tech

Our new bell

Close up of the bell

When the electrical work for the house was planned, a front door bell was foreseen, but since visitors need to ring at the main gate from the street to get into the garden, we thought a bellpush at the front door was unnecessary and . . . → Read More: Low tech

Wet...

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The first interior pictures of the house

Ruth's favourite occupation of the last few days

In the last few days we have assembled quite a few IKEA cupboards and shelves. The worst part of the process is that IKEA sticks an IKEA label onto almost every piece of the kits. The most difficult to remove was the safety warning that children . . . → Read More: The first interior pictures of the house

Pictures of our garden

María Pedro took some good photographs of her work when she was at the house just before Christmas. (If you click on any of the photos, you will see a slide show with larger pictures).

They show off the garden nicely and give you an idea of how the garden looks at the . . . → Read More: Pictures of our garden

Our postal address in Spain

Today we managed to get to the post office (no big feat, it is open daily from 8:30 to 20:30 hrs Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings, but we have spent nearly all our time working in the house) and organise a post office box.

We had gone to the vast expense of . . . → Read More: Our postal address in Spain

End of project

Casa la Abuela: In the background the arroz al horno, waiting to be served

Yesterday the work on the house was finally completed, we are very pleased with the result and think everyone involved has done an excellent job.

People told us we were mad to build a house in a country . . . → Read More: End of project