Waiting for the home page

I am still working on the home page and I reckon it will take some more time. The front is kind of done but I am not sure this is it.

The blue colour saying "Farm Holidays Silver Coast" is not so bright irl.

Until this one is finished check in our facebook page www.facebook.com/farmholidayssilvercoast

Åse

Varbergs Kurort

Yesterday I went to Varbergs Kurort, a spa by the sea. I had never been there before so I didn´t know what to expect.

I had got a gift certificate for my 50ths birthday from my very good friends A-L and H. A-L had booked us on a full day at the spa with treatments and different activities.

I set off early from home and was there about 7.45 am. We were going to start the day with 45 minutes morning yoga which was practiced outside. It was my first outdoor yoga but definitely not my last because it was absolutely wonderful.

Having a gorgeous lunch

After that I had a booked treatment where they made feet baby like again. Then we went into the sauna, swam, had coffee, lunch, did qi gong and A-l finished with afro dance in the sun. I was too tired (and lazy) to participate but I had fun watching her and the rest rolling their hips to great music.

She is just doing it

I had  a wonderful day with my best friend A-L

Åse

Need your help again

We have now launched our new Facebook-page www.facebook.com/farmholidayssilvercoast. Please go in and "like" and share. At the same time we got our first booking. Well it  is not a proper booking. Two friends are coming down to help us out with the wine harvest in October. It is going to be a lot of fun.

We had good response from people who said what kind of information they wanted us to write on the home page.

Now I want more help. We are going to renovate the apartments, one at the time. The apartments have 1-3 bedrooms and the cottage has three bedrooms. They all have private entrances, patios (the cottage has three), kitchens, sitting areas and bathrooms. But they are a bit dated and a bit worn.

What do you think is the most important in a holiday apartment/cottage?

Look at our Facebook-page www.facebook.com/farmholidayssilvercoast

Åse

What you want on our home page

Yesterday I asked what you wanted to do on your holiday and what we kind of information we should write down on our home page. I got all kind of good answers and suggestions.

If I understood correctly. You wanted:

1. To know places of interests and attractions there are in the surroundings.
2. Good restaurants near by.
3. Culture like castles and museums
4. Markets and villages
5 Maybe a section for families.
6. Sports activities
7. Beaches
8. Festivals
9. shopping
10. How to get around, buses, trains and car rentals

There are probably more interesting things that we haven´t thought about yet.

Continuing working with the home page but until it is ready you can always look at our Face Book page. You can ask questions there and I will try to answer.

Don´t forget to "like" it.

www.facebook.com/farmholidayssilvercoast

Åse

your opinion please

So we bought a vineyard in Portugal. We haven´t actually closed the deal yet but are going to when we go there during the wine harvest in September and October..

The vineyard produces about 4000 liters annually and has 4 holiday apartments and a free standing cottage to let. On the premises there is a small pool and a quite run down play ground. There are about 70 fruit trees, olives, oranges, grape fruit, pear, apples, lemon and tangerine and some more.

We are going to start to renovate the apartments one at the time and also have plans for the pool area and play ground.

When we now are trying to make a home page for the vineyard and market our apartments we would like to know:

What do want to do on your holiday?

We are looking for some key words what people want to do when going on a holiday.

Thanks for your help.

Åse

Hej

Hoppas att ni alla har eller har haft en skön ledighet. Det är den "gamle" som skriver igen, det var ett par veckor sedan. För mig är en skön ledighet att få styra över agendan och göra vad jag vill. Idag gjorde Åse en underbar middag till mig efter det att jag hade varit och målat Carporten, det var grillad röding med grönsaker, till efträtt var det äggvoffler, kan det bli bättre, skulle inte tro det. Min målbild idag var att sköta jobbet som vanligt samt att måla. Målningen brjar att bli lite jobbig just nu med tanke på att vi har hållit på i ca 2 veckor, men vi börja att närma oss slutet av vårt uppdrag

Vi hade som ni säkert har läst en otroligt trevig helg i Stockholm förra veckan. Nu planerar vi in en ny helg i början av september, vi tänkte att vi skulle besöka restaurang Prinsen, en klassisk restaurang som serverar god husmanskost. Såg på Per Mobergs program " vad blir det för mat" ett inslag från Prinsen, det verkade riktigt trevligt och gott. Är det någon av Er läsare som har några andra bra tips på trevliga saker att göra i Stockholm så tar vi gärna emot Era förslag.

Imorgon kommer vi att göra klart Carporten och avsluta vår del i målningen av huset, som ni vet är detta ett steg i arbetet inför försäljningen inför vår flytt till Casa Bogavilia i Portugal. Nästa projekt kommer att bli att fixa till tvättstugan, detta projekt skall vara klart under augusti.

Det är ganska mycket just nu som ni säkert förstår, i vår tidsplan inför flytten skall vi påbörja fösäljningen av vår Sverige boende i mars, det finns flera olika projekt som vi kommer att genomföra inför flytten, målningen var det första. Vi kommer att hålla er alla uppdaterade

Sköt om er och ha en fortsatt skön sommar
//Lasse

August-school and cray fish

A new month. This is back to school month. The teachers start a week before the students so we can plan as much as possible and also there will probably be some lectures as well.

This is not something I look forward to but it will be nice to meet "my" students again. I can feel the tension already. It is something special about a new academic year. And when you look at your students and see how much they grown over the summer and still they look so sht about meeting each other again.

This is also the month of celebrating the crayfish. On the west coast of Sweden this means crayfish from the ocean and in other parts the crayfish come from rivers or sweet water. I just loves the ones from the ocean since I am a gal from Gothenburg.

sweet water

from the ocean

When we move to Portugal I will have to give them up. It will be very hard but maybe I can switch them into percebus (not sure about the spelling there). They grow on cliffs and rocks and looks like small penises when you open them up. When we went a sea food restaurant in Ericeira the waiter showed me how to eat them. I had one! Not because they tasted bad but because they just looked nasty. The taste was similar to cray fish.

percebus

This month also means a stop to lazy mornings and reading in the middle of the day. No more sitting up half night because it is such a wonderful night. It means it is getting darker each day and I really hate that. I love the light in the summers.

But there still some days left before I have to get back to work, some days with late mornings and sitting up late, some reading in the day and sitting up the whole night.