When we bought our house in Jimena de la Frontera, we knew it had a history. Quite how much of that history we would ever discover was another matter. It's an old house, on an old street, in a town where the past is never particularly far away. And while we've spent...
There are some decisions you make when renovating a house that take weeks of consideration. And others that just seem right from the moment you see them. Our kitchen sink was one of the latter. When we started planning the kitchen in our Andalucian townhouse, we knew...
Another week in our little corner of Andalucía, and another seven days of attempting to make life just that little bit simpler. An ambition which, given recent experience, might be considered somewhat optimistic. After weeks of correspondence, numerous conversations,...
As summer has passed, so too have overly summery dinners. Gone are the cool, green salads and light dishes and in come the more hearty recipes. We're finding that our meals are slowly becoming more on the spicy, punchy side, as we prepare for the onset of colder...
After several weeks in which life seemed determined to provide us with enough material for a small novel, things have been a little quieter. Relatively speaking. The working week has been a busy one, with websites being launched, others nearing completion and a few...
There’s a particular optimism attached to the arrival of a new piece of technology. Here, in this box, might be the answer. A small investment of time setting it up, and one less thing to worry about. Sometimes, that optimism survives the unpacking. And sometimes, it...
...our Andalucian Life. Covering the things that happen. The things we notice. A week in our lives. Another week in our little corner of Andalucía. Another seven days in which we've managed to experience the ridiculous, the frustrating, the occasionally bewildering...
There are certain things in life that ought to be simple. Turning on a light, for example. And yet, somehow, we managed to turn this most straightforward of activities into something of a technological endurance test. When we were renovating the house, we bought some...
Our experience of changing electricity suppliers in Spain - and why a lovely octopus has won us over. When we moved into our house in Andalucía, we knew there would be things to get used to. Spanish bureaucracy, unfamiliar systems, the occasional language barrier. All...
Meet Henry, Donette and Nettie. Three very different members of the household, each with a job to do. There are now three vacuum cleaners living in our Andalucian house. Two of them are robots. The third has been with us for so long that he's practically family. We...