Ay Lin
My name is Ay Lin Kho and I am from The Netherlands. I worked as a professional in the nutrition field and I also wrote books about nutrition and health. When we travelled to Portugal I wrote blogs about life in Portugal. One day we decided to buy a house in Portugal, sell in The Netherlands, emigrate and renovate our newly bought ruin. It took ages before we could move into Casa da Lima. It turned out to take more years than planned. While waiting for all to be finished, I walked a lot of caminho’s to Fatima and Santiago de Compostela. Of course I blogged daily about these journeys in Portugal and Spain.
Mindful @ Casa da Lima
Now we have settled in 2024, we host the renovated house: Casinha da Lima.
Before we moved, I followed an extensive mindfulness course from the Radboud University in The Netherlands of at least 100 hours of mindful exercise (Covid period). I always shared knowledge about health. Mostly about nutrition, but now also about living mindfully and doing mindful exercises on the retreat at Casa da Lima. This is still part of what I do: sharing knowledge about and living a Healthy & Happy lifestyle.
As a writer I write about our activities, new adventures and the pilgrim stories of those who sit around our table. Who knows I will write in future about the traumatic brain injury and how you can survive it as a partner, a completely different and complex story but also my caminho.
Jaap-Willem
My name is Jaap-Willem de Visser. I worked as a project manager in IT-business in The Netherlands. First thing I did when websites were booming was claiming my domain name Jaap-Willem.nl. I never used it, until now, twenty years later in Portugal. We turned it into our Casa da Lima website.
| suffered from a horrible stroke while we were moving to Portugal. It delayed and changed our plan to move. I will never fully recover and a lot of our plans didn’t go through unfortunately.
Santiago de Compostela and Fruit Garden
But I am grateful I walked the caminho to Santiago de Compostela, two years after being paralyzed, and now I bike daily on the dirt roads around Casa da Lima. With hard work, being in nature and the right and positive mindset (which by the way I didn’t always had during the recovery), a lot is still possible.
You can find me in our back garden, on our terrain in our fruit garden or in my beautiful and big kitchen. I started an organic vegetable garden on our property, embracing permaculture principles to grow fresh, sustainable produce. With these ingredients, I strive to create flavorful and healthy meals for you to enjoy. I can do one thing at a time, but if the cooking is done and Cinta is sleeping soundly I will tell you more about my path from hospital to Casa da Lima. At least, the part that I remember!
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