Quinta das Abelhas

my little sis has a blog

Jun 29th 2008sophieblogging

http://ethicsgirl.wordpress.com

central portugal awakened living project

Oct 3rd 2007sophieblogging & webstuff & portugal & friends

The lovely Pete & Cynthia are now ‘almost owners’ of a beautiful quinta for their Awakened Living Project - spiritual evolution & healing, meditation, permaculture, holistic health, raw food diet - see the blog of their progress at
http://portugalproject.com

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WWOOF Central Portugal

Jul 22nd 2007sophieblogging & webstuff & wwoof

As we have far more WWOOFers and other volunteers applying to come to Quinta das Abelhas than we can accommodate, we’re finally gotten around to setting up a new website (an idea we’ve had for ages) to bring together hosts and volunteers. The aim is to provide a useful resource for host farms offering volunteer work placements, and volunteers who’d like to visit this region - a kind of “one stop shop” for volunteering in Central Portugal: www.wwoofcentralportugal.org

Obviously in its very early stages at the moment we’re encouraging everyone to join in and contribute!

The website offers a free page to each host to describe and publicise their volunteer opportunities and contact details, plus a blog for hosts and woofers to write their thoughts, ideas, experiences, news, ask for volunteers/volunteer placements, etc….

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riding & blogging

Mar 12th 2007sophieblogging & horses

so … i think i’m more-or-less done with getting this site more-or-less how i want it. will ask dom to design us a nicer (and more relevant) banner than the one that came with this theme. i’ve spent most of the weekend playing with wordpress but i think i may have got a bit carried away with adding too many plugins and widgets, hence the site is loading very slowly. will have to streamline methinks.

i’ve now transferred all the archives from our old blog, and all the pages from our old website, to this new one.

i did manage to make time yesterday to go for a long ride with my friend elise. the horses hadn’t been out for ages so we decided to go no faster than a walk - along the woodland tracks and down to the river to have a coffee with conny while the horses played and ate grass in her paddock. then back through the old cobbled streets of the village and down into the bottom of our valley before coming back home. i really enjoyed it and (as always) have promised myself i’ll make time to ride more often.