El Mas Feliz

Before John & Simona bought the place nearly 2 years ago, all that connected El Mas Feliz (The Happy House, in Cátalan) to the nearest country road was a burro path through the small, green mountains. They've come a long way since then, but have more ahead than behind them, and perhaps always will.

Dawn was magnificent; I arrived last night without a real chance to dizzy myself with my surroundings, so stepping out of my caravan this morning was a rush.

I'm 4km from a rural farming village (1 payphone... internet -- what?) called Cabanes, outside Castellón, over an hour's jog from Spain's Mediterranean east coast, but I can see it just fine from here. Just fine.