Monday 16th August 2021Blog from the Edge - 7
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Here’s Alison’s new Blog from the Edge number 7, as we carry on excavating the cave and the area around it and prepare for our first family get-together in Ribeira Brava.
Guest Ready & our Cave Oasis
Exciting - we have family arriving today (Monday), our first guests in Madeira! The rooms are all ready and waiting, and the terraces swept and washed 😅.
The temperature has crept up these last couple of days and is set to be around 30C plus this week for their visit, dropping to around 25C plus at night. Thank goodness for bedroom ceiling fans! We have well stocked wine, beer and food fridges for their arrival.
Elvis appeared this week 🤣 - he’s the guy who we asked to restore the outside lights. We were 6 short, so he turned up trumps with lovely ones that he sourced from a deceased lady’s house, all wrapped up in the Financial Times - dated February 2000!
Paul is still excavating the cave beside the house, and using all of the loose stones from the inside to build a path alongside the Levada. I think it may evolve into a fern and pond ‘oasis’ - I can just imagine it with solar lights dotted around it.
Next week, my blog will be an update on our days out with the family. We’re looking forward to taking them to see the glorious sights of Madeira.
Posted on August 16th 2021 on 04:22pm
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