We have been here for about two and a half months now and the sun shines almost every day. As Christmas approaches, the world around us looks more like a glorious spring time. We have the cutest lambs walking over our land, which is full of yellow flowers. Birds chirp while we pick lemons from the trees in our shorts. The orange trees are full of blossom. Some pretty pictures show best what a paradise we live in now.
Another new experience: pruning the olive trees for the first time
This task was actually not on our to do list, but now we know it should be
Working to welcome eight new inhabitants to Horta do Baldio
Almost two months after the harvest, we received our delicious olive oil
Taking our first steps in reviving the old vegetable garden
Finally our neigbour’s sheep have come to keep us company
What a pleasure to discover food on our land we had never heard of or seen before.
Autumn in Portugal is not complete without eating roasted chestnuts. So we had to go and visit this festival in Marvão!
When two city people from northern Europe try to harvest olives in Portugal
Probably our favourite town in the area. This should be high on anyone’s bucket list.