Today we placed the caravan of my parents on our terrain in Vimieiro. We had a nice meal with the three of us with a fantastic view and in great silence. We could actually hear the flies flying 😉 (and […]
Today we placed the caravan of my parents on our terrain in Vimieiro. We had a nice meal with the three of us with a fantastic view and in great silence. We could actually hear the flies flying 😉 (and […]
One of the nice consequences of all the heavy rain that we had, is that our water-lines are filled with water again. That means, that the bridges that we made last summer, are now really bridging water 😉
After the deluge of last week a lot of water had accumulated on the more horizontal parts of the land. With careful driving (and traction control in the car) I had still managed to move around even with trailer, although […]
At 312 m depth and back into grey granite. That means that we have about 120 m of wet layers with water percolating into the drilled hole. Carefull estimations show that it can be enough for us and our guests, […]
Today was really exciting and guess what… they didn´t drill. They couldn´t drill. Grrr!!! One of the hoses of the hydraulic system had broken and they couldn´t find a replacement hose in the wide environment. Literally at the end of […]
After 190 m the massive grey granite came to an end! Now, it is finally getting into more variable soil and rock formations… brown granite, red granite, dark granite, and yes, from time to time even clay or some more […]
This week the drilling for water has started. It is an incredibly slow process, because they have to drill through massive granite. In the beginning they still managed to drill 12 m per hour, now at greater depth the speed […]
Today, 27 September 2013, is World Tourism Day. This year the theme for is: tourism and water. It couldn´t be more appropriate! With that we don’t mean the rain that fell here today, which is the first since 18th of […]
Here are some photos of the visit of the Dutch delegation (and 1 Danish – brave Michael!) to the B&B. Thanks Eric and Sijmen for sending the photos.
Yesterday, I had a most fantastic afternoon/evening. Two cars full of friends come to visit us at the B&B for the first picnic in the field. Even though I had my camera with me, I was too happy to be […]
