LMSC

Spanish casita with great view over our ...

September 15, 2020

Euro 75 per night

Contact us through mark.aswyn@gmail.com or by phone/Whatsapp +34 - 674 521 533
The casita is located on the estate La Mina San Cayetano, a former coal mine complex that ......

Small casita in lush garden setting.

September 14, 2020

Euro 65 per night

Contact us through mark.aswyn@gmail.com or phone/Whatsapp +34 - 674 521 533

This small one room casita is located on the estate La Mina San Cayetano, a ......

We call it the bad house, but ...

September 13, 2020

Euro 55 per night

Contact us through mark.aswyn@gmail.com or phone/Whatsapp +34 - 674 521 533

The 'bad house' is located on the estate La Mina San Cayetano, a former coal ......

About us

September 10, 2020

I could have written this in Dutch as we are Dutch, but since we have a lot of guests coming from non-Dutch speaking countries I write this 'about us' in English. We ......

12 Meter container full of mature orange ...

November 08, 2016

Prices of orange trees are not cheap. They grow slow before you have a decent yield of oranges you have to wait many years. You can buy mature trees with a thicker trunk, but these go at the garden centers for ......

Next project... the former coal deposit

July 11, 2016

The orange garden is nearing completion, although the actual trees still have to be planted and we have to connect the trees to the irrigation system (dripping tube). But my mind is already somewhere else the former deposit of the coal. ......

A Royal Stairway

July 09, 2016

The 30 meter long wall which separates the higher field before the cottage and the lower orange garden and which creates the terrace has been a mega project. When we would have known how long it actually took to build it ......

Demolishing the first wall of the coal ...

February 06, 2016

I would prefer to completely concentrate my work on the coal storage building, but unfortunately that is not an option. We needed a lot of extra filling material for the 30-meter long wall that we are currently creating in the orange ......

Replanting the 'mountain'

January 15, 2016

Everywhere on LMSC you find mountains of call it bad coal. Poor coal was separated from the good coal and was dumped in several places. One of these sites is located close to the building where the coal was stocked. You ......

Mauritius Hemp, Mediterranean Hemp

September 26, 2015

De Latijnse naam is 'Furcraea foetida', en voorts heeft het vele namen, waarvan Mediterranean Hemp voor mij het makkelijkste is om te onthouden. Het is lid van de familie van de Agaves, maar het heeft gelukkig niet van die dodelijk scherpe ......

De mini dumper

April 05, 2015

1 Van de machines die we - of beter gezegd ik, Mark - op mijn verlanglijstje had staan was een mini dumper voor het transporteren van aarde, stenen, zand, grind, brandhout en dergelijke. Ik had een hele mooie gevonden op de ......

Clear the land !

March 20, 2015

Allereerst even dit... Dit is de eerste post die ik in het Nederlands opstel. Het gaat toch net iets gemakkelijker en mijn aandacht gaat net iets meer naar de daadwerkelijke inhoud dan naar het vertalen van de woorden die in me ......

Handle with care

January 19, 2015

Agave Salmiana Ferox is the official Latin name of the giant of the Agave family. There are many varieties which are quite similar. The shape of the leaves - also called 'tongues' - and the color decides the variety. What they ......

Drakenboompje planten

January 15, 2015

Onder de meer dan 200 bomen die we uit de failliete boedel van tuincentrum Es Jardinet hebben gered - de meesten waren zo goed als dood door uitdroging - waren er een paar exemplaren die giga groot waren n in giga ......

Storm took it's toll Mimosa is gone ...

January 08, 2015

Mimosa Pasiflora is a beautiful yellow flowering tree. Outside the flowering period you will not really notice it, but when it's flowering you can't miss the striking yellow of the thousands of flowers. The problem with this fast growing tree is ......

The third water deposit near the tower ...

October 08, 2014

There are 3 water deposits on LMSC one just right of the garage, one left of the 'bad house' and one near the tower of the mine. The last one is in a very bad condition because of the roots of ......

Ficus Elastica, very fast growing tree

August 29, 2014

Since life is short you want to enjoy trees when they are fully grown. So selecting fast growing trees is almost a must. Just 4 months ago we planted a Ficus Elastica in the middle of what we still call 'the ......

The bad house is not so bad ...

August 18, 2014

A little while back a couple from The Netherlands stayed in the bad house and they loved it. They did not care that the foundation of the house was weak. The view from the terrace was more important. They did not ......

Hard, harder, hardest water....

August 18, 2014

The water here on Mallorca contains a huge amount of calcium, which causes lots of problems. For instance nozzles of the irrigation system have to be soaked in vinegar regularly it order to keep the water flowing. The biggest problem of ......

Cutting one of the smaller pine trees ...

July 12, 2014

The main tree on our estate is the pine tree. Some are extremely big with a trunk diameter of a meter or so. They grow fast and they can tolerate any type of soil and can survive long periods of drought. ......

Finishing the end of the catwalk

June 14, 2014

The catwalk is what we always called the stretch of concrete running from the terrace of the bungalow towards the cottage. It's leads to a kind of 'roundabout'. It has never become clear to us what David Coldwell - the former ......

Mares, one of the most commonly used ...

June 14, 2014

Mares is a soft type of stone created from compressed shells. Although it is quite heavy, it's normally soft and even with a manual saw you can cut it in the shape you wish. We have created the long wall on ......

Olives

April 22, 2014

There are many olive trees on the estate, although most of them are 'wild olives', giving very small olives which are not really suitable to produce for making oil or put them in jars. Although... we do have a few cultivated ......

Irrigation is on the agenda again after ...

April 22, 2014

To keep all plants and trees alive during the hot Summer it is essential to have automated irrigation. Otherwise you will simply forget to water one or more and drought is killing in most cases. And you can't work a list ......

The end of the catwalk

April 20, 2014

In front of our house there is a long stretch of concrete, which we call 'the catwalk' as it's flat without any borders and it ends in a kind of roundabout. The former owner did not complete this and we decided ......

Martillo hidraulico finally we can work with ...

April 18, 2014

We had 2 drill hammers, a small Bosch Blue common use drilling machine including a hammer feature and a larger Makita especially for hammering - weight about 15 kg. The Bosch machine is far too small and the Makita proved to ......

Completing the big wall near the 'bungalow' ...

April 18, 2014

The former owner left many jobs unfinished and we try to finish it and we prefer to follow the ideas David had, unless we really do not like it.

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Stay at San Cayetano

You can stay in one of the 3 guest houses we have available on the estate. All privately located and different. There are always some food basics in the house on arrival and if there are eggs of our chickens or fresh vegatables, we will share it with you.

Cottage

Two bedroom, max 4 persons house with two terraces.

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Doctor's house

Small casita with one bedroom for max two persons in a lush garden setting.

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Bad house

Spacious house, small kitchen, best view on the estate.

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