Blog posts, beginning with the most recent and dating back to March 2020
Travelling light – to Biarritz by bike
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on Saturday 25th March 2023. We’re on our way – taking a week to cycle a 400 km round trip to Biarritz and back. There is an art to travelling light. I’ve never had to do it as we’ve mostly travelled with our…
A new way of living
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on March 17th 2023. We have now reached the milestone of one whole week living without a car and it has been a fascinating experiment so far. It might sound extreme to describe it as a new way of living but in reality…
Mothballed
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on March 11th 2023. We are back at Le Shack, enjoying a few weeks of rural solitude after a month house-sitting in the bustling town of Pézenas. As always it is great to be back but there is a new dimension to being…
A Mediterranean Medley
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on February 25th 2023. I have a Mediterranean medley for you this week, a collection of photos of the landscapes that surround us. Since we arrived the weather has also been a mixed medley, ranging from minus four with thick frosts, to rainy…
House sitting in the Languedoc region of France
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diairies on February 11th 2023. A few days ago we left Le Shack and drove for about five hours due east. For the next month we shall be looking after two dogs and one cat, staying in a house only two minutes walk from…
Deer caught on camera
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on January 27th 2023. It’s 9am and in the woods that surround our field a deer is making its way through the tangled undergrowth. Our trail camera is attached to a tree not far away, and the movement of the deer triggers it.…
Snow memories
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on January 20th 2023. We have snow at Le Shack! The ground was so sodden after several days of heavy rainfall that we didn’t expect it to settle, but it came down thicker and thicker and eventually won the battle. Snow is a…
Spanish Pyrenees Part 3 – The Carrion Eaters
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on January 6th 2023. We recently took a day out to see one of the local places of interest. Let me share our experience with you. ‘It seems a weird thing to market as a tourist attraction,’ I said as we followed the…
The Spanish Pyrenees – Part 2 Cheese sarnies for Christmas lunch
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on December 30th 2022. I hope you all had a good Christmas. Whilst many of you might have been tucking into a huge meal, wearing paper hats, pulling crackers and wincing over the jokes, we were sitting on top of a hill eating…
The Spanish Pyrenees – Part 1 Settling in for Christmas
Hello and welcome to the latest blog from The Olivia Rose Diaries on the 21st December 2022. After two weeks at Le Shack we are on the move once more, heading just over the border into the Spanish Pyrenees. We have taken on a house-sit for a month over Christmas and the New Year in…
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