Dougal gets a new hat
Our regular guests – of which we’re proud to say we have an ever expanding number – know that every season they will visit to find we have tinkered with our Ashwem Beach site. Whether it’s building a new massage room (more on that next month) or changing our planting regime, we like to keep an element of freshness in what we do; it keeps us interested and engaged in our core business.
In 2010 our domes took on a new look, compared favourably to both Dougal from the Magic Roundabout and half a coconut standing in the sand! This year, since closing on May 1st, we’ve had our excellent roofing team, led by Rafik, revamping the Ashwem Beach domes’ roofs and adding a few modifications.
Each dome has been re-showerproofed, re-palmed and re-grassed, but not only that, all the domes now have a new crown, slightly raised above the main structure to allow for extra ventilation.
As well as Rafik & Co. we’ve also had our fabricator, Ashok, re-working the window frames (check out the photo for Health & Safety- Pernem style!). If there was one design flaw in our domes it was surely the heavy, awkward nature of the windows, which had to be heaved open. One guest, strangely, even commented on tripadvisor that the domes were window-less!
So, borrowing from the design of Keralan houseboats, we have now fitted all our domes with new, easy-to-open mango wood windows. The domes remain nice and dark and cool, just like they should be, and the new roofs mean we can open a bit earlier this season and test the last of the October rain.
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