It's been about two and a half years we did the driveway from the border to the house, in that time I have been taking pictures to see its evolution, I include several of them. We had some problems and We've learned several things, we could have done things differently but We are satisfied with the outcome. If someone has to do something similar what we hope will serve as a guidance. First of all some pictures of the construction of road, which was held in September 2008 and took about 10 days to run. After the necessary earthworks are deposited a first layer of limestone, as shown below:

Limestone's layer in the road

On the previous layer is deposited a second layer of a stone called ophite, it has a earthy color and is cheaper than the all-one that is often used to make roads of this type. Once this is done the road  is watered because water to soak in and then tamped with it is ready for use. The picture below was taken before the final irrigation and compaction:

Almost finished, with ophite's layer

In our region it rains a lot and ussually it's necessary (or at least recommend) that the road has a layer of stone, in addition to firm the surface allows it to be well drained and not become a quagmire. And We've had the opportunity to see that is necessary. When we made earthworks also made an infiltration trench. This trench is compacted soil, and collects the water reaching the road, some of it infiltrates and the other is driven by it to a collection point. For this system serves the slope has to be reduced, 1:400 in Permaculture is recommended because in that way the water flows at the speed of a person's walk and there is no erosion. In the picture below we can see the ditch and also seen as have been growing weeds. The photo was taken in summer 2009, a year after made the road:

Infiltration trench

One of the problems we've had is of cause of the shape of our site we could not observe the slope indicated above, with the consequent risk of erosion. Six months later we had very heavy rains, in the picture below you can see that the ditch fulfills its function, but we also see that the amount of water flowing is important, in fact, there emerges in the plain, having a upwelling's   point when rains are strong.

Harvesting water in trench

And here is the point where the slope is higher and the water has exceeded the infiltration trench, causing erosion, at this point the width of the road has been cut in half and We can not go with the car, is an unfinished agenda I hope to resolve this winter, but serve to see what could happens.

Road eroded by water

This other picture was taken in summer 2009, also can be seen as some weeds sprout inside the road, despite having about 30 cm thick stone. Nature breaks through, you see...

Weeds sprouting

This was taken in summer 2010, the weeds has grown so much that it's difficult to see the road, but there it is. Several neighbours told us to put  herbicide on the road but We have refused, here we practice permaculture and try to "turn problems into solutions":)

Road fully covered with weeds

Finally this photo was taken in October 2010, and we see the road in the state that wanted to reach: solid and firm, well-drained, with some weed, but still short enough to enter with the car without problems. Is well integrated into the landscape and is easily maintained by trimmer or lawn mower cut, bringing the remains to the compost pile.

The road today