This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal The Portugal portion of our story is, unsurprisingly if you’ve actually read parts 1-4, complicated. When we started to…
Residency Renewed!
I know a number of you have been following this issue and we can now conclude the saga with the news that our cards arrived last week! It was very…
Giving Back / Building Community
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…
One Year(ish) In – The Advice You Probably Haven’t Heard
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…
Smiles Returning to our Faces: Aveiro, Day 2
This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2022 Our second day in Aveiro could have gone a couple of different ways. There is a (purportedly) fantastic…
Here Comes the Sun: Aveiro, Day 1
This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2022 I’m not sure how much our readers know about Celsius temperatures, so here’s a good rule of thumb:…
The Braga Effect
As you may have read, American immigration to Portugal is expanding rapidly. While we still don’t rate as one of the largest immigrant populations (Brazilians are far and away the…
Punting: Coimbra, April 2022
I actually have no idea if everyone uses this word the same way we do, but when a plan either fails to materialize or has to be changed on short…
Mandatory Equanimity: or, “(you better) keep calm and carry on”
A number of years ago we were driving in Ireland, spending a lot of time looking at lesser-known stone circles and other ancient monoliths. This was 2012, and having full-blown,…
Up-Country: the North of Portugal, Part 2
This post is part of a series called Northern Portugal – Winter 2022 To our American readers (and maybe those from other places, but I can’t make informed analogies for…
