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…

This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2024 Our jaunt to Aveiro was a quickie this time; just a couple of days respite from the heat….

This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2024 You can’t stay for too long in Aveiro if you like to stay active – there definitely are…

This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2024 We love our life here in Braga, but as with any move there are things we’ve had to…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…