LAND TOUR 1: Old Stone Houses, a Mill Wheel & Garden Terraces

hi i will show you my land today especially the stone houses which are unfortunately in ruins and i will tell their story if you like what you see please subscribe like and give me a comment i would be very very thankful so my name is maya i come from germany originally so when i came to portugal i started to look for a place on my own i've been dreaming about this for a long time and i decided for central portugal because there's a lot of water it's not so hot like in the south then i saw this one here it just went like that i asked on all sides and borrowed money to be able to do this and then everything was very fast very quick i'm really really happy to have found a place that i can call my own and it's definitely so exciting to have found this place i'm super super thankful now i will show you around so there are these three little houses that are connected and then there's another one a bit further down the hill these houses belonged to a factory that is down at the river so i'm now going to show you the old factory it's completely overgrown so this is where my land ends but the beautiful wheel still is mine the water for the wheel didn't come from the river though it came from another land up there that has a stream and they built connection to this wheel but then everything burned so also the pipes burned but it's still spinning and now how can i show you the ruin wow this is the old factory so the old factory is another property i just wanted to show you this because it's the context of my stone houses it was a textile factory and the story that they told me is that the workers one after the other built their little homes here this portuguese textile factory has been abandoned for a long time so at least 50 years nobody lived here and yes you can see that inside so let's go inside this is how the roof looks like this is the entrance area it's kind of cute between the two houses [Music] in another video i cleaned up this porch over there so this is the only entrance to these three houses they are all connected so it's actually one so they put a concrete roof on here here was a little traditional portuguese kitchen area and now comes the living area these are the only windows that still exist and there's still the old ceiling and the floor i would not recommend to walk on it but beneath this part this side here until there is a wall underneath so you can easily walk on it and as you can see here yes this is where the earth is behind so the walls are always moist this was a second room must be so nice to live here when they are restored okay i will try to walk on here oh there's the bed bye and then you have this view where's the river there's the river oh nice okay now i'm a bit scared of this bed [Applause] so if you wanted to live here you would pretty much need to take everything out the walls the floor the ceiling probably the roof because the roof is not sealed so it's great that the roof is on and it's perfectly holding the rain off the walls but for really living here you would actually need to put a new roof these old stone walls it's a really nice climate in here like down in the wood cabin it gets really really hot and here it's just calm and not so hot also in the evening it will be warmer longer up here and i will now show you the sleeping area so here the floor is even worse and maybe you can grow some food on this wall you know vertical gardens with some salad that would be cool i really love these walls actually back there quality is not so good anymore so this as they told me where the old bed you know like a mezzanine where they were sleeping and here they had a little cupboard in the wall kind of cute maybe it was a window before the next person built his house this is kind of interesting for the plaster to hold they use this wood technique oh my god the door okay this is the key to paradise okay are you ready for the next durian this room is actually almost done well it has a floor to make this habitable you need new windows a new door and the roof is not insulated at all so i'm not really sure what to do with this room a small terrace down there is the river yay so let's go down here to see the completely finished bathroom okay this was a joke but somebody installed a toilet they had some pipes they had a pipe from the water down there and they put a water tank up here so then this would flush the toilet these are the rooms that we just looked at from the top there's a little balcony and there we go so this room has a really nice floor and it has a wine storage very important and a big old wood treasure box and a lot of moldy walls and a ceiling and so many spiders here were some pipes because somebody had a kind of kitchen here and some clothes look at these thick walls so cool all right so we'll go around to open that door oh this is so exciting to show this to you guys because to be honest i was just ignoring these ruins i think i would need a carpenter or just a builder i don't know i don't know where to start and let me show you this is interesting because here they closed this was an old door here was an old air flow window this was an old stable probably just until this height and then they put this bella strait up there and this building that i'm showing you soon and that was the room that we just went in that already had the concrete floor so we go up here so here comes the churrasqueria in portuguese the grill area it's a really cool oven i'm very excited to try it out for pizza it's such a nice space here because you have the view to the whole river hi kevin oh hi cat hi did i frighten you did i scare you hmm how are you doing the previous owners just used it to have a workspace to make firewood that's a little grill area oh here's a water tank covered by firewood so they had one water tank up top that i already cleaned up and painted and one down here and this is how the houses look all together and now is the ground floor we have these two old stables there are some nice old tiles and a lot of wood and this is the last one the door doesn't really open so here they had some wine making going on in that tank and this is the room below the old mezzanine bed area of the factory workers so interesting so this area you know from my last video where i cleaned it all up so now you know what's happening with the ruins i will show you now the two big terraces where i cut down the ferns in my first video and these would be very very nice garden terraces because the ferns signalize a very fertile soil as you can see the ferns really like to grow back so this is the first terrace you really only see ferns and then down here you have again the little stream over the ground and here it goes under the ground and then comes out at the big stone wall next to the cabin over there i like these oak trees a lot i like their fruits they are so funny this terrace here can also be flooded because the stream will be so strong that it will overflow i'm not sure if that will happen this year yay so these are the two terraces perfect for garden so this land up there doesn't belong to me it's just rocks and up there starts the eucalyptus which i'm not very excited about because it burns so well this ruin up there looks really nice i think must have been a nice little house this was the first part of my land tour because there is something else i want to show you next week and now it's time for some daily or not so daily routines at the cabin [Music] hi there so today is the party preparation day because tonight i'm having a little get-together to inaugurate the cabin and the place so i just came back from the market and now i have to get all the stuff down to the cabin i'm so glad i have a wheelbarrow oh no baguette so my fridge is filled up the stream the spring unfortunately is almost empty now like it almost disappeared just to come up from that window from that hole there and now it just comes out from the bottom there but it's enough to serve as the fridge and i'm happy that still works let's make some potato salad [Music] who would have guessed you signed up for a cooking show [Music] i'm gonna get two more of these old chairs i think i saw them somewhere [Music] but it's good to have more seats but before the party starts i have to do some garden work i'm going to remove these plants here they are so crazy if you cut them they come back right away the only way to get them out is to actually get them out this is a big route let's see if i can do this [Music] [Music] i like that cracking look at that bye bye it is so windy today turns out we have a second beast over here oops i broke it off okay [Music] it's time to go swimming oh milo yummy so everything is ready from my side now i'm tired so the party can begin [Music] [Music] i'm really happy about your comments you have such good questions and tips for me and i really appreciate that [Music] you

Channel: Maya Feliz

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Length: 23min 12sec (1392 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022