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Sunday, October 5th, 2008The house in Galeş can be rented at the following address:
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Moara din Galeş - Galeş Watermill (Museum)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008On our recent trip to Galeş we made our first visit to the local watermill. It has been running since 1884, and despite being shut down in the dark days of Communism, it was re-started in the years after the revolution of 1989. It is an open mill for the local community to bring their grains […]
Architectural patterns of the Transylvanian Marginimea Sibiului
Sunday, November 25th, 2007The village of Galeş is situated in the heart of the Marginimea Sibiului. This is an area which comprises about 20 village and town communities that have a strong Romanian cultural and ethnic identity. The area sits on the northern arc of the Carpathians, close to the Valea Oltului, a river path leading directly south […]
Our kitchen with tiles
Thursday, September 13th, 2007We had been looking for some nice splash-back tiles for the cooker and the sink for some time now. We found a really nice hand-made tile firm in Sussex that makes Delft style tiles. These wouldn’t exactly fit with the Transylvanian style of the rest of the house, would need transporting to Romania, and because […]
Our house is finished!
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Finally, our house in Galeş is finished!
At the beginning of September our builder, Laurian, proudly announced the completion of the limewash painting of the exterior facade of the Galeş house. The pictures you can see below show the colour applied around the facade.
They are strong when applied because the sun will make them fade to […]
Animals returning from pasture to the village houses in Galeş
Monday, September 10th, 2007The pace of life in the village of Galeş may be slow but it is definitely regular and certainly timeless - for hundreds of years this pattern of coming and going has prevailed throughout rural Romania.
Shortly after sunrise the animals are let out of the courtyards of the village houses and at dusk they return. […]
Our house is finally getting some colour!
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
This weekend our builder took some pictures showing our house in Galeş finally getting its facade painted. You can see here the first stage of the painting, with the main area of colouring done. The next stage will be to inlay the next colour which will be a pastel ochre. The colour at the moment looks very blue, […]
Antique apple press
Thursday, June 14th, 2007Whilst at Dl Rusu’s bazaar of antique goodies we saw this really old apple press, and decided we must have it!
Our orchard in Galeş produces a massive crop of apples every year and we wanted to be able to make something a little healthier than ţuica. The apple press was a bit of a job […]
Before and after
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006This picture shows the difference between the way the house looked before we started and when we’d almost finished. The splashback tiles haven’t yet been put on the walls, so the kitchen isn’t fully finished.
You can see the new ceiling we put in to replace the other. The old ceiling was made up of cross beams (half trunks) with reed […]
Restoring the floorboards
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006The floorboards in Galeş had lovely old pine floorboards, which had not been well looked after - they had woodworm, showed some signs of rot, and in places had warped. We considered replacing them with new pine floorboards, but knowing that old wood can be restored to look amazing, trusted to our optimism that they […]
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