come together, right now ... let's buy a place?
The link below leads you to an article on villages for sale in Spain. Yup, whole villages, and while few of us (any?) could afford one on our own, CS, this is our chance to turn our global on-line village into the real deal for returning to a simpler, happier life, or even just time-share holidays
We could squabble in PERSON! 
For those who don't follow links, $230K (negotiable) will buy us 100 acres, 6 houses, 2 farms and even a stand-alone bread-making kitchen ... a nice little starter village, plenty of room to expand.
okay that's Northwest Spain, not many of our resident bloggers in that area (actually probably none) and even the article doesn't rave about the weather. Still knocks holes in Scottish weather, mind.
But it isn't the only village, probably just the cheapest. There are hundreds - even thousands - in lush fertile areas left abandoned as rural Spaniards move to the cities. We could be onto something amazing here.
In the first comment I will put the description of the village in question. Oh boy.
So that's today's Sunday dream.
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¡Viva los bebes españoles!
That was my baby alpaca voice being winsome and adowable. FAIL.
I have had Green & Black's Organic Hot Chocolate drink made with alpaca milk and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Coffee tastes pretty awesome too.
Ever since, I have this burning desire to move to somewhere a little larger than my pocket-handkerchief-size garden, and own alpacas. They are sweet, gentle, furry, shy, nearly as omnivorous as goats, and Red knows how to card their wool.
Did you read a single word of that?
There's an alpaca farm near here.
If you're a good girl, I'll bring you for a visit when you come over
I do begin to see why the men haven't been flocking to our village.
No matter. There must a village somewhere where the men aren't driven to go forth and multiply but are happy to enjoy a relaxed siesta - or even not so relaxed siesta
Better leave the directions to the alpaca farm pinned to your door
Including the red-headed siesta killer
and thanks to Cal, I won it!
It's a bit like Ireland
But - Spanish winter. That's not winter as we know winter.
And yup they cope in a surprising variety of conditions, but there'll be less wool than in very cold climates
If it is up the mountains, you can literally be cut off from civilisation for 3 months of the year.
There is a public phone in the square 8th most villages for communication when cut off
The beer lorry tends to make it to every village though, if humanly possible.
Oh well Sunday nearly over, but it was a lovely dream
In the summer it is gorgeous there.
And if you have the right company in winter, you wouldn't even want the summer to come
Cal, come visit the village in summer at least, 'kay?
Young people want to live in the cities, not in a mountain village.
The old people die out, and hey presto , you have a deserted village.
We have famine villages from the 19th century. People either died or emigrated. Village deserted.
There is also a vacancy in the love-chalet.
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last wish....
To possibly become retired and then baked.
Mollythe ladies don't exhaust you too completely I think we also need your direction in the town square to make it beautiful. Beauty and functionality, hand in hand.Leaving enough room for the beer truck to turn around in winter, of course
You will be busier than ever in your life before
Tell me more about the Love Shack?
If there can be several couples there at once, yup, you got me, I'm a conservative
But that turn could be a group booking
Can't cook, can't sing, can't bake, no green fingers, can't do just anything......