In the winter 23/24 Mario & Tito repaired the roof as agreed in November. When we visited the village in April 24 to sign the deeds, we went to the building site and met up with the two boys. It had been an especially wet winter in the area and..Read More
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For quite a few years we were playing with the idea of selling La Cueva. As we were getting older and our bodies started having less energy, cleaning and looking after 4 rentals was getting more and more tiresome. Quite a few interested people looked at the property, everyone liked..Read More
In our sparetime we are doing voluntary service as meditation instructors. The meditation centre we go to mostly is in Avila, about 2 hours west of Madrid, in the beautiful Sierra de los Gredos, with the highest mountain being el Pico Almanzor 2591 m.a.sea. The drive from Orgiva to the..Read More
In winter 2017/2018 we had to refurbish the pool of our holiday home La Rueda in Orgiva. As mentioned earlier on, the original pool was made from an existing irigation water deposit, against Paco, our builders, recommendation. After some years we noticed, that Paco had been right! Some cracks appeared..Read More
Also this this time the renovation took much more time , then we anticipated. But actually all went rather smooth and without too many problems, of course in the course of all our building years we had acquired a thick skin and were used to quite a few hickups! Our..Read More
While Jorge, the iron smith, was busy with the steel gurdles, we continued with getting the house ready for rebuilding. The beautiful and old staircase looked still good and we did think it would “survive”, but then it turned out to be rotten as well. The roof we did not..Read More
In January and February 2015 we were away travelling and left Paco in charge. We thought he could prepare everything for the renovation work, like pulling down inner walls, take out the floor tiles , get rid of the rubble etc.. At that time we neither had any water connection,..Read More
Unfortunately we don ́t get any younger either, therefore we were and are still, thinking of selling our holiday rental in Guajar Faragüit, La Cueva, since it ́s about a 40 min drive one way to get there. The original idea was to sell La Cueva and then buy something..Read More
Often reality differs from ones ́ plans and ideas, we thought to finish everything by spring 2006 and put that into the different booking platforms! Luckily no bookings came then …everything took MUCH longer and at the end we worked nearly day and night! All the decorationworks and the painting..Read More
After having finished tidying and pulling down most of the property , we started the reconstruction in 2004. During the previous years we were refurbishing our Holiday home in Orgiva La Rueda, therefore now everything was much easier. Paco, our builder, came every day with us from Orgiva, together with..Read More