My 'Stamping Ground' !

Just a few photo's to show a little of the village that I proudly call "home"..... Plus a n explanation of what is what!

1. This is the village shop - with the 'one star' hotel behind!
2. An overview of where my place fits into the scheme of things...

3. Couldn't resist this one - the mountain wearing a cloud necklace!
4. The approach lane to my house from the East. (Note the stores of wood ready for the winter.)


5. An old house - still inhabited, and with it's stable and barn still attached and used.

6. Sorry - I seem to have repeated this one!

7. The car entrance to where my niece has her 'holiday home' - hers is at the end on the extreme left (painted in yellow).

8. The local 'lavanderia'. Still used daily in the summer. The beating boards are in granite and the trough carries fresh icy cold' water from the mountain above!


9. A small 'lean to' - still in use and left attached to the obviously restructured house behind it!

10. More inhabited dwellings that despite their age have been left intact - even though the 'new road' passes above them.

11. Yet another working store....psarts of which will be at least 300 years old.

12. My next door but one neighbours house (in all it's 'blue' glory). This family have been in the village for at least four centuries..... In fact all the houses that surround his house belong to his children. That is with the exception of mine and my 'new neighbours' - but so as not to spoil things, he is their uncle!!!!! 

posted by Carole B @ 5:51 PM