Life in a Dol house BLOG

This Blog began in 2014 as a way to keep in touch with family and friends. Gradually more people wanted to read the Blog and so it went from being a weekly email, to an on-line page.

Over time we used different platforms until in January 2019 when we moved to our own dedicated pages. Past years blogs will be added, but it will take time…


Life in a Dol house is about the daily trials and tribulations, successes and failures and the mundane minutia of modernising an old Croatian farm house and smallholding. This is on a beautiful Adriatic island, and is about our making it productive again.

Each week you are invited to join us in our adventures on a small plot of land in this quiet backwater. Here, where the pace of life is still regulated by the passage of the sun across the sky each day and the season of the year.

Below are our most recent Blogs. Just click on any link to open a new page.

Has Beans – 2026/20
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Has Beans This week: Last of the orchids; Has Beans; It is Saturday lunchtime and I have just come in from working in the East Orchard because it has started to rain. I’m no longer waterproof or water resistant, however … Read More

Red is the colour of the week – 2026/19
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Red is the colour of the week This week: Trip to Split; Arbour dismantling; Red is the colour of the week; We are in a period of unsettled weather at the moment, however I am not complaining. This week my … Read More

Mediterranean life is a privilege! – 2026/18
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Mediterranean life is a privilege! This week: ; ; This week the weather has been fine and sunny, but with a cold wind. On Thursday a cold front moved down the Adriatic with the line of cloud which marked the … Read More

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