Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas at Velagota







Well it's been a bit of a 'porkfest'!



Christmas morning started with a soak in the hot-tub. Followed by our home-grown breakfast of fresh eggs, home-made sausages and bacon (and a bottle of bubbly!).



(the bacon has turned out a little saltier than we would have liked but it's all a learning curve!)

Pre-dinner drinks on the roof-terrace with pork-liver pate.

Then roast leg of pork, with all the trimmings, cooked in the new house!

Last night we had chinese style-pork ribs, with singapore-style noodles (with pork!).

Today we are having a sort of indoor barby with.... wait for it - satay style pork fillet.

You might be thinking we are getting sick of pork- but really we're not- it's totally fantastic!
Hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas- anyone fancy a cold pork sandwich let us know and we'll post you one ;-) xxx

Thursday, December 11, 2008

newbies to Velagota


Terry and June

(P.s. our postbox has now been replaced- hope this one doesn't get pinched!)

Friday, December 5, 2008

kitchen




Paul has started work on the kitchen- so hopefully we will be cooking Christmas Day

Dinner in the house- woohooo! (no water connected, or heating or doors and only half the windows so far- but hey ho- you gotta start somewhere!!)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

let it snow




just been for a 'marvellous' walk- the Serra is covered in snow- apsolutely breathtaking!


(again- look closely- you can see our house!)

frosted glass?




hello from a frosty Portugal brrrrrrr!
but.........guess what.......


the windows have arrived! woohooooo!
(shut the door will you its freezing in here! oh sorry- no doors yet)