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Sevilla: Feria de Abril
This week is the Feria de Abril (April Fair) in Sevilla and we’ve decided to go there today. After a 75 minute drive we park the car at the outskirts of town and take the metro to go to the city center. It takes us a lot of time to buy tickets for the metro…
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Lost and found: a postcard from Andalusia
We found a postcard in one of the other apartments here. Apparently, someone intended to send a postcard, but lost the card before it was sent. It has a name and address on it, but no text. So we don’t know who bought it. Neither do we know how long ago it got lost. Was…
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Cordoba: Battle of the Flowers
Normally, the alarm goes off at 6:30 and we allow ourselves until about 7 o’clock before getting up to do our yoga and meditation before breakfast. Not today though, for today we are going to Cordoba. And that’s a long drive (almost 2,5 hours) from here, so we’d better get going. We arrive in the…
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Filly in distress; a matter of life and death
Friday was a day off for us, and we went touring to explore the southern most part of Spain. Upon our return at the end of the day, Marion and Aldo were still here and we exchanged information. In our absence, a Spanish woman had brought her 11-month old filly to be boarded here. They…
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One year and one day of permanent traveling
Today it has been exactly one year and one day since we gave up our apartment in Emsbüren, Germany. Since then, we have traveled 30.000 km by car. We were mostly in France, house sitting. But also visited friends and family in Germany, the Netherlands and Tenerife. It’s been a year filled with wonder and…
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Our first week as workawayers in Andalusia
I can’t believe a week has passed since we arrived here! Time is really flying, apart from the hour we lost last night due to the start of summer time. The round corral is cleaned of all weeds and ready to be used. The big shed up the hill is cleaned as well, and the…
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Site seeing Sevilla
Yesterday, we had decided that today we would visit Jerez de la Frontera and Cádiz. Today, as we woke up, we decided to go to Sevilla instead. The Levante (a wind blowing in from the east) has been blowing since we arrived here and we’re really tired of it. Meteorologists predict it to continue today,…
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Our “tiny home” in Andalusia
Yesterday at 18:30h, after a 9,5 hour drive, we arrived at our new home. It’s at Finca Rienda Suelta in Andalusia. The landscape we passed through as we drove down here was somewhat of a surprise. Virtually all land is cultivated. We saw incredible surfaces of orange, peach, almond, olive, and grape. Endless neat rows of…
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A guided tour of the Ebro delta and surroundings
After a good and long nights sleep, we did our meditation in bed (Deep Healing with Davidji) and then got up to do our yoga session in the living room. Grace and Gerald were already up, as were the cats Pita and Pata (aka Pitter and Patter) who were quite amazed at our attics 😉…
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From Gava to Freginals to visit Grace and Gerald
After a bit of a restless night, Christophe wasn’t feeling too good. So I decided that I was going to descend all our stuff from the apartment to the car, and that he was only allowed to help with the things I really couldn’t handle alone. We’ve accumulated quite some stuff over the last few…
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A 9-day holiday on Tenerife
We spent nine days on Tenerife with Nathalie, Christophe’s mum. It was really a holiday, though we did work a little bit every now and again. Most of the time, however, we just enjoyed ourselves and spend time with Nathalie, without particular agenda. So we went to the beach twice, even though it wasn’t very…
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Meeting Peter Sage on Tenerife
Yesterday, through TrustedHouseSitters.com, we received a message from Maria, the executive assistant of a Mr Sage from England. She explained that he is in the process of moving from England to Tenerife. He’s looking for someone to look after his two dogs in Tenerife when he’s away from home. And he travels a lot for…
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Summary of our stay in the Provence
Our three months stay in the Provence is over. It was fabulous and we enjoyed every moment. We divided our time between work, play and whatever life threw at us. Work The first weeks of the year we spent working on the inside of Ananda. We had contacted Atreya Smith, the writer of the Ayurvedic…
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Update of last month (December 2018)
We’ve been very busy this last month, but not with things that are interesting enough to write about them here frequently. We participated in the March for the Climate on December 8 in Toulon and we visited Greifenberg for 4 days around Christmas. All the rest of the time, we were either at home or…
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Back to normal, after one month and over 3000 km
We leave Tostat in the rain on the 7th of November. On our way to Paris, to visit Christophe’s aunt, we make a detour for Saint Jean de Sauves. Because on our last visit there, we had accidentally left behind Christophe’s electrical tooth brush. After a very brief visit with Alfreda we leave Saint-Jean-de-Sauves (with…