“You can’t have the light without the shade.”– Stephen Fabes After a long, cold winter here in Portugal, I was quite excited when the days started to warm up and the landscape around me was transformed in froth of white flowers breaking over the slope of the neighbour’s land like a giant wave. Spanish broom […]
“There are experiences of landscape that will always resist articulation, and of which words offer only a remote echo – or to which silence is by far the best response.” – Robert Macfarlane – April visit 2018
We were hoping that our house would have had a roof, floor, and windows, but late winter rains have hampered progress, so when we arrived at the end of March, the roof was only half completed, and plastering inside, only just begun. No floor. And no windows. We didn’t mind too much, as the rain […]
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