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During the last winter the team in Casa Luessa and highly skilled local tradesmen have refurbished Casa Luessa by seriously changing and modernising the main ensuite bathroom plus the addition of new doors (painted a light cream colour) throughout. With some external whitewashing thrown in the villa has been refreshed and appears altogether even more…
Another recent discovery that we would highly recommend to visitors to Casa Luessa. Approx 45 mins drive from the villa this sight seeing trip is well worth the effort. It is impossible to capture the rugged beauty of the place in a few photographs but the following give you an idea of what can be…
Local car rental firms can provide reasonable rates for day trips and can easily be found on the web. For those who do not wish to hire a car various alternatives exist. Shopping – Local supermarkets do provide an on-line shopping service with home delivery to the villa. An account is set up under my…
For all the true coffee lovers that visit Casa Luessa, we have at last ….’moved on’ from filtered coffee to a highly regarded Lavazza ‘capsule’ machine. While this makes wonderful coffee and has an inbuilt frother for all those cappuccino lovers out there … it is reliable, easy to use and I’m sure a very…
As described in a previous post we installed 5 x 250watt panels in an area of scrub land to the back of the villa. Last year the performance and therefore return was hampered slightly by connection delays, communication faults etc but for the last year it has been pretty much 100% trouble free. We have…
A structured 360 tour of Casa Luessa to help get the feel of the place… or trigger old memories.
We have had the ‘5 solar panels’ each rated at 250W peak production for approx 1 year now and this is a reasonable time to report on the success to date. There have been a number of issues, shall we say, throughout the year. Covid 19 has of course completely distorted the demand side as…
The Clean and Safe Seal is a standard of excellence with regard to all aspects of the Covid 19 Pandemic we are all living through. Clicking on the symbol will take you to the Portuguese authority website but in a nutshell to obtain the Seal …you must attend an on-line course, create safe operating…
For added convenience an on-line shopping account has been established with the local Apolonia Supermarket located a 5 minute drive from the villa on the outskirts of Lagoa. Login details will be provided (to enable trouble free delivery ie villa location gps details stored) to the website (English & Portuguese versions). You can then select…
When we bought the villa in 2014 no work had been done since its construction date ~ 1970’s. In order to prepare the villa for life over the next couple of decades we did all of the work to bring it into line with current remedial building practices. This has been described previously in villa…