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An Inconvenient Phone Call

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Paul

Amanda and I returned to Spain on Sunday afternoon after a first joint trip to England in over two years. We’d been for a special meal, dinner suit and posh frock, held in honour of one of my old mates … Continue reading →

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Single Handedly Ending The Spanish ‘Crisis’

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Paul

We’d planned to go to the stone masons near Mondoñedo on several occasions and on one occasion had even got part way there before turning back. We were interested in a couple of things; an old stone trough to go … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Christmas Eve

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Paul

Dusk had already long since fallen on Christmas Eve. I was outside testing the motion detectors on some new lights I’d installed to give Amanda additional security while I was away in Belfast, standing motionless until they went off and then waving … 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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