Our friends A&B have been raving about a meat-intensive utterly delicious restaurant in the hills just above Guimares. A bunch of us arranged cars and set out on a bit…
Look, Up In the Sky!: Alentejo 2024, Part 2
This post is part of a series called Alentejo – 2024 When we were about an hour away from Montimerso, John started having a problem. The problem was that the…
Paradise Delayed: Alentejo 2024, Part 1
This post is part of a series called Alentejo – 2024 A long time ago (last year), in a galaxy far, far away (Braga), we planned to celebrate our anniversary…
Part 7. A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish
This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal (attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupery) (the photo is not relevant. Nothing interesting to look at it in this post,…
Part 5. Portugal
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:…
