I promised to some readers a while back that I would post an update on our situation with regards to making our move to Portugal all official. For those who didn’t hear about the fun and games we had the threads can be found here: Red Tape in Portugal Portugal Red Tape Rant I am…
Once again some visitors have left and home feels strangely empty – we are, however, getting a bit more used to the transition! This time we had some family over and spent a wonderful week doing the tourist bit in the local area. As well as our trip to Zoomarine, which I wrote about in…
We have family visiting us at the moment and they kindly treated us to a day at Zoomarine Algarve. Zoomarine is a sea-life based theme park near Albufeira, with an aquarium, water and fairground rides along with various animal shows. I’ll start my report with a word about dolphins. Until I mentioned on my Facebook…
After my slightly negative post on Friday, it’s time to put my positive head on again to start the week. Also, I am either getting more used the weather or it has cooled down a bit, so no moaning from me today! So to start my week filled with positivity. Here are….seven positive ways life…
It’s time for a little confession. I have been reluctant to admit to this but it is important I give readers planning to move to Portugal a fair and honest assessment of our time here including the good and bad – so here goes: This past week we have been struggling, a little tiny bit,…
As someone who frequently bemoaned the lack of individual shops in England when we lived there, Portugal is a bit of a treat when it comes to shopping. We always used to say the only cities in England that offered anything better than the dull identikit high street were Cambridge, Brighton and York. A recent…
As promised last week, today we have a guest post from a good friend who visited us last week. Our guest plans to move abroad some day so her visit was as much a fact-finding trip as a holiday – weighing up whether or not Portugal is somewhere she may one day like to live.…
As we look forward to another hot and sunny weekend, I thought I would write a quick post about the Algarve in the summer. We have never been here in July or August before, so the last couple of weeks have been something of an eye-opener. Trips to anywhere west of Faro are off the…
Having friends come to visit us here in Portugal is fantastic, especially at this time of year when every day is blazing hot and we are starting to forget what clouds are like, let alone rain. What isn’t so fantastic is when they have to go home. When people share our new home with us…