Author Archives: Paul

My New Favourite Builder

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Paul

I’ve got a new favourite builder. After everyone else has left site he is still here, working solo, and trying to set the world record for the largest free standing stone built chimney. He wears a floppy hat by morning … Continue reading →

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What a Difference a Week Makes

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Paul

I had spent the last six months diligently working on the bread oven house. Occasionally with the much welcomed help of Amanda, but more often on my own with just my iPhone playing music in my back pocket, or perhaps … Continue reading →

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Out With The Old, and In With The New (Old)

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Paul

We must be paying our builder Facundo too much, either that or he’s won the lottery without telling us, or perhaps someone else is paying him too much (but I doubt it). I know this because after four years of … Continue reading →

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Finding What Two Acres Of Grass Is Really Worth

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Paul

The barter economy is alive and well and living in Galicia…and it is possible for you to get involved in it totally by accident. After we’d bought the house we were initially exposed to this the oldest of trading types when … Continue reading →

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A Dozen Things That We Now Know, That We Didn’t Know Before

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Paul

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been living in Spain for seven months. Sometimes it feels like just yesterday that we were packing our worldly chattels into the big red van and making the exhausting 1,300 mile journey from Huddersfield … Continue reading →

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