Last weekend I appeared in the Sunday supplement of El País, a leading Spanish national newspaper. It’s an article about people who decided to swap their urban lives for a rural one and the difficulties and challenges that presents. I am very proud to have been asked to be a […]
CASA ORETANI
Before we left for the summer the guys had started on the roof of our house. Off came the tiles and on went the Thermochip and the tiles again…eventually…after a few weeks. I never could figure out why it took so long to do that bit…nor could they give a […]
Here at Oretani Wildlife we thought it about time that I did another update on the house to keep you informed about how our birding clients guest accommodation is coming along. Nothing more has been done to the guest house façade since the Parklex went up and they haven’t finished […]
So Oretani wildlife has been moving along with the guest accommodation here at Casa Oretani. We left off some time ago with the metalwork of the beams over the dining room of our house. Since then the building has moved on quite well. The roofs are all done, the floors […]
So nearly another month has gone by and the weather has been somewhat unkind to us. There has been plenty of rain and even some snow. Personally I don’t mind the rain, we need the water here, but it sure messes up a builders schedule. Anyway, we left off in […]
So, it’s been a while since I updated this blog, my Flickr account or anything really. I haven’t disappeared, I’ve just been busy. Sort of… The story is that, as some of you know, myself and Mrs. HibernoManchego bought ourselves a “casa de pueblo” in 2011 in a beautiful little […]