Santito Festival 2024: a success story
Back in March, we had no running water, no working toilets, no functioning bathrooms. Four months later we hosted 20 people on site and received another +/- 50 people for our first festival in honour of our patron saint Titus Brandsma. A priest dedicated our source, we found a bagpipe band at the last minute, […]
Festival de Santito
And there we have it: the official poster for the first edition of our Santito Festival! It is written in the local language, so to clarify: it’s July 27th starting at six in the afternoon. We will dedicate our water source to Saint Titus Brandsma and do so in style.
Farming in an abandoned village, does it make sense?
As farmers are protesting all over Europe because they can no longer make a decent living, is there any future for farming? Let alone farming in a Spanish mountain village on marginal lands? The answer might surprise you.
The Big Cleanup Episode
In search of water part III
The third installment of our search for water in our abandoned village in Spain. In this episode we finally find the source!
Stunning autumn pictures
In the north of Europe, autumn is my least favorite season. Gray and dreary days, weeks where you don’t see the sun. Cold, windy and wet. I felt that autumn colours, falling leafs and mushrooms popping up was no compensation. Autumn in Galicia is definitely far better: for the second year I get to enjoy […]
In search of water part II
In search of water part 1
Cleaning House
Wednesday 9 August the final purchase contract was signed. All four heirs had traveled to an administration office, as well as our dutchspañol real estate agent Frank and former Penadexo resident Angél who came as a witness. In the first week of August, we had already started a major clean-up of the house. After all, […]