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The quarry our dry-stone walls are coming from We visited the plot yesterday morning with Antonio. As well as seeing the progress on the site, Antonio and Pepe (who is the builder) told us that one of Pepe’s men was at the local quarry, about 5 km from the site, breaking stones to . . . → Read More: The quarry where our walls are coming from
La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 We visited Antonio in Valencia yesterday and spent the morning at the building site. When we got back at just before two in the afternoon, the streets of Valencia were packed with people and Antonio needed to show his Spanish . . . → Read More: “Hostilities” break out in Valencia When our house in Xàtiva is finished, Ruth intends to carry on working for a time in Frankfurt. Which means we will be living partly in Germany and partly in Spain for a quite a time to come. Indeed, we expect to keep a foot in Germany for the foreseeable future. What I want to do is to ensure that our data – scanned documents, music, photos, spreadsheets, text documents etc. are equally available and up to date in both locations. Ruth will be using a Mac in Frankfurt, and in the house in Spain we plan to install most of the remaining computer equipment that we have here. Today all our data resides on a Synology DiskStation DS210+ and can accessed from any of the Macs in the household. We don’t store data on the individual Mac local hard drives. What I would like to do while we have two households is to be able to replicate data between two data servers – probably installing a DiskStation at each location and synchronising them regularly. Let’s say the main storage location is in Spain. My idea is to access the Frankfurt data server from Spain using WebDAV, mount the Frankfurt server as disk drive on my Mac’s desktop in the house in Spain and use a program such as Synchronize!Pro or Goodsync regularly to keep the contents of both servers identical. I think there is little chance of Ruth and I happening to edit the same file independently of each other between sync’s, so I expect the main sync activity to be adding or deleting files on two data stores. I decided to set up WebDAV access via the internet for the existing DiskStation we have in Frankfurt and check whether the idea is feasible. To do this, I needed to set up an account with a dynamic DNS (or “DynDNS”) provider so that I can always access our systems in Frankfurt (Our ISP assigns us a dynamic IP address which changes every 24 hours). I needed to set up our FRITZ!Box 7270 to route traffic securely from the DynDNS provider to our DiskStation. Here’s what I did: I watched an interesting film on Arte last night, about planned obsolescence. I liked the title in French – Prêt à jeter (ready to throw away), a play on the phrase from the fashion industry, “prêt à porter” (ready to wear). The English title of the film is Pyramids of Waste or alternatively The . . . → Read More: Prêt à jeter Most of the time, I will be visiting our building site on my own, over the next months. Ruth is still working, earning the money to pay for the house! So I will need to call home to discuss any issues that arise. Last time I was in Spain, we tried out the DCalling Service. This seems to work. Well. I think we’ll be using it a lot in future. You register with DCalling, which will get you a small credit on your DCalling account (25 cents, if I remember correctly), to allow you to try out the service. If you like it, you can top up your account in units of 20 Euro, which will be enough to keep you going for over 17 hours if you are making international mobile phone calls to land-lines within Europe. Continue reading DCalling: cheap international mobile phone calls
The pool, with the hole for the pump in the background Antonio sent us an update from his site visit on 8th February- since I was there a week ago, the pool has been excavated, and the concrete base for the house poured. The progress is very easy to follow at the moment! . . . → Read More: The pool has been excavated
Concrete has just been poured around the steel column-cores I was down in Valencia on Tuesday to see Antonio and we went out to the site as he had a regular site meeting scheduled with the subcontractors, builder, site foreman and the technical architect that morning. While we were there, the concrete foundations . . . → Read More: Just back from Xàtiva Seen today, on our afternoon walk We had a surprise today – we received some photographs taken on Tuesday this week by Antonio, our architect, showing what has already happened in Xàtiva. I must say it was nice to see not a single sign of snow there; quite a contrast to here, where we have had some light snow again . . . → Read More: First pictures of our plot after construction started The construction of our house in Xàtiva started a couple of weeks ago, so we are busy thinking about all the decisions we still need to take, before the builders take them for us by default. The sanitary ware, taps and showers in the bathrooms, the interior doors and their handles, the floor and . . . → Read More: Light relief |
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