Part 3: Buying a ruin and rebuilding it as a guesthouse
Anyone who has bought property in Spain and has tried to convert or add on (be it only one wall) and to do so legally will doubtless have...
Magical evenings
Every so often it is totally wind-still in the evening. This is very often in combination with the full moon. At around 21.00 hrs...
All in the family
My son came to Tarifa first in 1986 to join a kindergarten school friend to set up a business in windsurf parts and sail repair. This...
A Working woman
I have always been (and still am!) a ‘working woman’ – by choice! This is of course a ‘luxury situation’. Privileged to have had a good...
Never has an egg tasted better!!
Lunch on a Friday at Venta El Caseron, Los Badalejos : tel. 629886151 – Pedro Directions on leaving from Dar Cilla, Tarifa: My suggestion...
A change is as good as a rest ….
No view can beat that from the roof terrace of Dar Cilla, looking across to the mountains of the northern coast of Morocco with the...
What a fantastic day
What a fantastic day today. The wind has dropped completely, and the silence on waking was almost weird. The Moroccan shoreline is back...
The coronation of our Dutch King
This was the day our Queen of the Netherlands abdicated and her son, Willem Alexander, was crowned King and his wife, Maxima, became...
