More garden furniture
No posts for three weeks but we’ve still been busy. Jackie on the veg patch (she will post when she’s finished bottling the tomatoes!) and me with more woodworking projects.
One of these projects was a garden chair. I picked up some tongue and groove floorboards from the local sawmills and this is the result:
I’ve also made a table for the courtyard (the purple colour is Jackie’s idea in order to match the colour scheme of the courtyard which is… purple and blue).
It’s not been all work and no play however. Our Spanish friends Scott and Delia visited and one of the things we did was go swimming in a local river. Of course the hairy ones loved this and Betty learned how to swim!
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Hi there.
Found your blog through expat-blog.com. Liked it very much. My wife and I want to do exactly the same thing. What part of Portugal do you live in? We are in the process of looking for some farm, hopefully note expansive. If you have any suggestions from your experience, we would greatly appreciate it.
Cheers,
Hi
We live in central Portugal, about 40 mins south of Coimbra. Advice? A difficult one as everybody is looking for something slightly different. I think you need to decide on a general area and then come here and rent a place for a while until you find something suitable. Having said that, we didn’t even follow this advice and found a place on the spur of the moment and we are very happy. The best advice – Just do it!
Thanks Richard.
For sure we will. Real estate prices in Portugal and Spain for that matter are still falling and will continue falling until everyone wakes up to what is going on. So we are thinking to do it this summer. If it happens, maybe we’ll get in touch and get together for a couple of glasses of wine. Cheers.