Kate Pullen

Well, this is a funny thing… I was reading in the news that there were studies going on about replacing eucuplytus plantation with avacado plantations. The eucuplytus are not universally loved, and have been the cause of many of the…

We went to Burela on Saturday and thought we’d go for a swim at Marosa beach, which is a surfing beach. We have been swimming there before and it was very nice – but that was before it got closed…

We went to a bean fiesta on Saturday. Well, I should say THE bean fiesta – as people come from all around to buy beans from this particular area. The town is part of ‘bean valley’ and there’s even a…

I had to go to the opticians this week, and when Ian picked me up, we took a little detour towards Foz. We looked at one of the beaches, which is the beach where the Normans landed during the Normal…

Ian went to look at houses which I wrote about HERE. He saw what was going to be our new house from the outside and took a photo of the beach and bridge. I mentioned that later that day he…

For Ian’s birthday we went for a look at an area which was very much on our shortlist for houses – and saw the monument to Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down just off the coast. It was very…

We have a little corridor that goes from the living room to downstairs. It had a dark lampshade and was very dingy. I got a cheap paper lampshade and we hung a mirror we’d inherited with the house and it…

We’re still enjoying food from our huerta – while a lot of it is coming to an end now, I can see the peppers and cherry tomatoes are still flowering, so I wonder if that means that more will come…

The car passed its ITV (similar to MOT) for another year. Which was good. We have a small list of things to do, but thankfully nothing we weren’t expectig. We were early so we went to the beach near the…

A while ago, a man we used to talk to when Daisy was playing ball with his dogs, told us about a beach which isn’t too far away which he said was very pretty, being famous for its white sand…