Funny you mentions Catalonia Mossy just the other day I went to a website where you can learn catalan and did some of the language exercises, I'll be sure to learn some more soon.
Up a mountain is where you would find me and I have seen some awesome plots for dirt cheap, over the years a lot of Spanish people have left the the mountains to work in the cities and abroad, which has left old farmsteads derelict as long as you don't want to live in Cantabria prices can be up 25% lower than other parts of Spain in the regions I'm looking at.
Most have a tumble down house too and I have no problem with renovation/rebuild.
I've been looking at plots with a couple of acres for about 30K euros and even found a water mill in that price range, so would be ideal for hydro with the possibility of selling the excess power.
Of course it all takes time and money, combined with a lot of hard work but I have my plans and I am a hands on can do person.
Basque country would be another possibility, I'm definitely gonna check the Almeria link a see what cooking ( thanks for the link
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AFN farms all over Spain now that would be awesome, if cannabis gets legalized you may as well call us the tourist board lol.
I'll keep my fingers crossed on the karma front, I think I'm about due a rebate, we live in hope.
I bet when you tell hubby about how fast petee put up his tunnel, hubby will be wishing he'd brought the recliner. I can see it now "sorry mossy I cant' put up the tunnel , I m stuck in this damn chair" and pissing your self at such a funny spectacle.. again...not!
Yay hot water now that something not to be sniffed at. Dunno is you have ever heard of Jean Pain? He was a French man that was into compost heated water. It is fairly easy to make a hot water shower using a realatively small compost heap.
Jean Pain took it to the next level, he made a compost heap 10 cubic meters and heated his entire house for the whole of the winter inc hot water from taps and showers etc and in the summer put the composted material back on his land.
Running through the compost heap would be a long coil of water pipe which heated the water as it passed through.
Solar water heating is also more effective than PV (photovoltaic) and you can even build you own passive system using an old radiator painted black in an isulated glazed box or buy vacuum tube solar heaters.
Only saying because I think it is really cool, I don't expect people to rush out a build these things, but it may come in useful for future projects.
Here's a vid sorry about the quality you don't have to make the smelly methane unless you would use it.
[video=youtube;gdu-r4h5yAA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdu-r4h5yAA[/video]
House work you say all I hear is swearing lol maybe you could get a lend of ep's meerkats or maybe to stop getting scratched by the cat put mops on its feet (oven gloves maybe needed to put them on the scat, um ..I mean cat).
assing Wind..: :Nosey Neighbour: You know what they say! The one who smelt it delt it!!
..we have Hot Water....."pher Wiggle"
you're a chaty lot in here...
So as I was dropping off my children at school today, I was listening to the radio and I heard a discussion about underwear that stops the smell of farts! I was shocked! Really? Where can I find these? I know a few people in my life that desperately need this. So I came home and started searching. 
