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.

Ten men went to mow – 2024/23
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Ten men went to mow This week: Ten men went to mow; D-Day remembered; Holes in the wall; All building work stopped on 1st April this year, so that tourists have the best possible experience of the Island. So as … Read More

Just an epic failure – 2024/22
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Just an epic failure This week: The weather in three charts; Just an epic failure; Analysing the problem; Tradesmen or just workmen?; Chasing wires; This has been a funny old week. A week of odds and ends. I was bringing … Read More

Finding my Krone tool – 2024/21
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Finding my Krone tool This week: Finding my Krone tool; Filling in the gaps; Our weather remains extremely changeable. On sunny days with clear skies, the temperature is around 25ºC. When barometric pressure is low, it is cloudy, rainy and … Read More

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