Category Archives: 2014

The journey down was pretty uneventful, thank goodness, only to say that we started to try and share the driving a little more, but being a bit of a control freak it is very difficult to let someone else, even … Continue reading →

It’s been a long hard winter and nearly 6 months since we have been to the site, but at last it’s time to set sail and make our way to Portugal again. So car loaded with the eggs, bacon and … Continue reading →

Lets start with a spring is sprung! Here’s a photo of one of the fig trees starting to produce fruit for this year, always good to see the signs of spring.   We have moved forward again a little since … Continue reading →

Well there hasn’t been a lot of action in the past week or so, as we had our first obstacle to overcome, apparently the ground is quite soft and the builder felt that the foundations should be deeper than indicated … Continue reading →

This is a momentous day in the birth of Casa Neroli ! We heard yesterday that Marco had started, today Paulo the Project Manager and Architect visited the site to check that everything was going to be built in the … Continue reading →

The weather in Portugal has been a bit rough over the past few weeks, which had the inevitable affect on the builder finishing current work and getting started on our build, but today we had an email from the Architect … Continue reading →

Well we are well into February and things are very slow in getting going, but we suspected this would be the case, even when setting the dates with the builder we discussed some flexibility around the date to allow for … Continue reading →

Well it’s 2014 and going to be the year of the build, amazingly this is probably some 6 years ahead of our original timelines. This of course is excellent news, but of course has also created its own pressures, however … Continue reading →