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Our lemon tree was very unhealthy when we moved in. It had been covered in ivy and weeds and looked very different to the colorful lemon trees that dot the landscape. Well, after a little TLC, it not only started…

We had to go to the post office and instead of coming straight back, we went in the other direction to explore over the cliffs. We started off at the ‘paper rocks’ which near the old whaling port. and then…

Well, perhaps. An odd thing happened last week and that was the local supermarkets all sold out of the frozen veg mix I normally buy for Ludvig. He eats pellets, a seed and fruit mix and the veg mix. It’s…

Did the steps sink or the sand rise? We recently discovered that some bakers open on a Sunday morning in larger towns. So when we went to get bread for a bread-and-cheese meal, we also got some for lunch and…

Who’d have thought we’d have such an interest in boats 🙂 That photo is hydrofoil ferry which has been built in the ship yard in Burela. It’s for an Italian company. The ship yard in Burela also has recently built…

Quite remarkable! I am sure that our noses don’t normally look like that. However here is a nice pic of Ian, that is the surfing beach at Marosa which we can just see right at the right hand side of…

A family of cows/bulls appeared in the field behind us. I hope they stay longer than the horses, who escaped after a couple of days. It is nice to see them though from the back of the house. Fishy Picnic…

We’re really not exagerating! This was the ‘queues’ in the supermarket at lunch time on Christmas Eve! We quite happily leave our Christmas food shopping to the last minute as we know from experience, there’s no last minute rush. Of…

This is one of the places we’ve been releasing our little mousey friends. We’ve had quite a few – think they were attracted by potatoes we had drying upstairs. Here’s one heading to his freedom:

Our Christmas light appeared at the weekend! We wondered whether one would arrive this year as we’d noticed that the Christmas lights in San Cibroa had appeared a couple of weeks ago and I’d looked back and saw it had…