kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Travelling
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Repairing the van
Leaving Seville with a bagful of memories, highlights and lowlights
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Finding food in Seville
Strolling around the town and what did I found! Wild food…with a disappointing twist.
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Staying in Dos Hermanas near Seville
Cooling my heels in Seville waiting for solar system repairs, taking in beautiful tiling and architecture. Mending some garments and reappraising van living.
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Not everything is sunny in Seville
Some difficulties with the van solar system. Parked up near Seville to sort this out and visit friends.
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Fantastic adventures in beautiful Basque Country, Spain
Recent adventures and fun times assembling yurts and being tourists in Basque Country.
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Beginner’s Land Art; we built a pathway
Collaborative stair building from recycled roof tiles, wall cement and slate flooring. In beautiful Olabe, Basque Country.
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Making horta
Cooking salad greens in Basque Country. Healthy dandelion, stinging nettles and lamb’s lettuce recipe.
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Kiwifruit tart recipe, how to use up extra kiwi fruit
Kiwifruit pie recipe, delicious lemon orange zest filling. Hour and a half to prepare, refreshing served next day cold with custard.
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Assembling a yurt, finishing touches
Our main building project at Olabe is now complete! Finishing up the yurt and working out the kinks in our yurt assembly process took about a week in total. You can read about the first few days of the project in my previous post. After the frame was up, there were four layers of weatherproofing/aesthetic coverings
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Frozen wonderland, aka last days in Somerset
Winter is here and life in Somerset is icy. A few nights have dipped below zero (Celsius). While we have piled up all the knitted blankets, shawls, sleeping bags and doonas from storage and are cosy under them at nights, it is very much not cosy outside of them. We have had a few days
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