I had very much hoped to call this next post “Chilling Like a Resident.” Unfortunately, despite a tour of four different government offices yesterday, it was not to be – we still don’t have our residency. The two major problems here, as I see them, are firstly that European law changes all the time and…
Portuguese “red tape” and paperwork is once again the thing consuming our time and energy at the moment. When we first moved over here several months ago, it was right at the top of our priority list to get all the paperwork in order. I am not sure quite how it moved back down the…
I don’t usually post on a Friday but I thought it was worth an extra quick update today just to say that this was the week the weather truly arrived here in the Algarve. We haven’t seen a cloud all week and have really relaxed into the rhythm of the summer, which for me involves…
Living here in Portugal seems to have made me interested in gardening. It was something I always wanted to be good at in England but a combination of poor weather and lack of time to properly look after the things I had planted made for a certain amount of disillusionment. Spring Onions were my first…
I thought it would be interesting to give a slant on my sometimes perhaps slightly rose-tinted view of our move to Portugal, so I asked her to write a guest post reviewing her first six months in this wonderful, sunny country! Here’s what she said: Being asked to write a guest post for my husband’s…
Apologies once again for my extended absence. We had to pop back to England to attend the wedding of some dear friends, and to earn some money. As with last time, it was a whirlwind of activity without a second to spare, and we hardly found time to breathe until we unceremoniously landed back at…