Not quite a year and a half ago, I was summoned back to my parents’ home because of my mother suffering a health issue that could have turned catastrophic. It…
Leeshz Bow Uh: Lisbon 2024
A careful reading of this humble blog might reveal some surprising, if not actually embarrassing, patterns in our travels. To wit: we’ve been visiting destinations in — let’s call it…
Pottery Mouth: Aveiro 2024, Part 3
Our jaunt to Aveiro was a quickie this time; just a couple of days respite from the heat. We may drift up and down the coast over the years, but…
Part 7. A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
(attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery) (the photo is not relevant. Nothing interesting to look at it in this post, so that is us in front of Bodiam Castle in Sussex,…
Part 6. When Do We Leave?
We’ve decided that we would like to move to Portugal. Great! Now how exactly do we make it happen and when will we be able to afford it. We work…
Part 5. Portugal
The Portugal portion of our story is, unsurprisingly if you’ve actually read parts 1-4, complicated. When we started to sniff around Portugal as a potential Golden Visa target, we found…
Part 4. Vive la France?
As I said at the end of the previous post in this series, we started to get cold feet about Italy. We’ve looked at some weather data, and it is…
Part 2. Let’s Do This
Welcome to the second part of our annotated look back at the process of us moving to Europe. Hopefully, it’s an enjoyable read for you; we’re certainly enjoying going over…
Part 1. Can We Do This?
Lisa and I had formulated a retirement plan over the first umpteen years of our relationship; a good, solid, dependable, American retirement plan. We would work into our 60s, then move to Ashland, Oregon or one of the neighboring towns. There, we would integrate with the artistic and spiritual communities, volunteer at the Shakespeare Festival, and generally enjoy our life. We even had our eye on a retirement community a little north on I-5 that we always saw when we drove down, and figured that was where we would transition to if we weren’t able to live on our own at some point. It was a fine plan.
Portuguese Phrasebook, Page 2
It comes a lot, not just with the immigrants here but with travel in general. There’s these levels of language learning (woof, used up all the “l”s in my keyboard…
