Views of Cantabria

These are the views on a day trip 30 minutes south of our house.

Ripping through

We had some rotten pannels as floor on the second, so thinking I could get around over them I was walking carelessly... and I fell through. Nothing serious, just a bruise and scraches on my left arm. So I got mad and started ripping those panels out, the pictures speak for themselves. We have gotten almost all maneure out of the house and the vine on the western wall is gone for good, pretty soon the whole place will be stripped in the inside and pretty clean around it, that is our main goal at this point.

In the meantime we are working on getting the permits to start making the re-roofing and digging for the septic tank, I really have the feeling that we'll be able to have something close to lieveable within a few months.
Pictures follow.
Hope y'all herad about this blog by now, pass the word around to anybody interested in checking it out.
Ed.

So, if you are interested in what is this place about and how does it look, check this one link out.
http://www.ayto-cayon.com/naturaleza/descripcion.phpa

I was getting the whole job done with a simple stick!

Before and After

Before









...and After

Getting started

For starters we have walked all over the place and got aquainted to the surroundings, the thorny bushes and the shape of the land. Also the building and here is a resume of what we´ve found:
The land.
Is very steep! There are too many thorny vines that sting you badly ( we now need some goats to get rid of them), by the way we had roasted goat for lunch today and we could hardly believe our taste buds, the little restaurant inside the tiny village of Esles deserves all my admiration.
Well there are holly bushes ans maples and eucaliptus and oacks and hazlenut trees all over too, they are very healthy looking and huge.
The building. Bats.
Yeah, there is a little bat colony inside the building that I will lament to evict but they really have to go, Jen nearly had a heart attack.
We have no floor between first and second, only some wavy rotten plywood panels that can hardly hold me, so better step straight over the beams. But is roomier than we thought and in very good shape, today we have pulled off a quite large ivy vine that was overwhelming the west wall and crawling over the roof.
Well, this is the first posting on this blog and i hope it will work, take it as an experiment, let me know any questions you´d like to ask.
I am going to try to post some pictures now.
Talk to ya soon !
E.