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Taking a Quick Break

Posted in Daily Life
Lisa Mc Sherry

Hey all, some family things have come up and we’re a bit distracted. We’re taking a week off from posting to get caught up and organized again. See you next…

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“Oh, Rocky!”

Posted in Daily Life, Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

For many of us seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the late night run in the local movie theater was a kind of rite of passage. This gorgeously schlocky…

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Washing Clothes in the EU (part two)

Posted in Daily Life
Lisa Mc Sherry

This is a continuation of my deep-ish dive into the weirdly complex world of washing machines in the EU. Like a lot of literally foreign concepts, not growing up with…

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Washing Clothes in the EU (part one)

Posted in Daily Life
Lisa Mc Sherry

After (checks calendar) three years of being in Portugal, I am still learning things about how our washing machine works. Which feels weird because I’ve been doing household laundry since…

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Portuguese Phrasebook, Page 2

Posted in Daily Life
John

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…

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Holiday Gift Guide for Travelers

Posted in Daily Life, Holidays
Lisa Mc Sherry

We recently were asked about our travel kit; the person was looking for holiday gift ideas. If you’ve been reading us for a bit, you know we have opinions; strong…

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Out of U.S. Notarizing — A Lesson

Posted in Daily Life
Lisa Mc Sherry

One of the very few hassles we’ve had to deal with is that Lisa owned the condo her mother lived in back in California. We knew it was very likely…

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Posted in Daily Life, Navel Gazing
Lisa Mc Sherry

We’re just a little shy of two years since the creation of the-ramble and we’ll be rolling out a few additions to this website over the next few weeks. (Or,…

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Giving Back / Building Community

Posted in Braga, Daily Life
Lisa Mc Sherry

If you read our extensive ramblings (see what I did there?) about getting to Portugal, you know that we were given generous and extensive support from many strangers on social…

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One Year(ish) In – The Advice You Probably Haven’t Heard

Posted in Braga, Daily Life
John

We are far from the only people writing about their traveling experiences or their new lives in Portugal. There’s practically a tradition of sharing your thoughts on moving here after…

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