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…
When we were about an hour away from Montimerso, John started having a problem. The problem was that the scenery was getting prettier and prettier. We both love Braga –…
A long time ago (last year), in a galaxy far, far away (Braga), we planned to celebrate our anniversary by ticking an item off our not-quite-in-the-bucket list – visiting a…
tl;dr: the managed seller auction pickup process is so easy, we could have left the house for the day. 2024 tl;dr: this is a factual account of how selling our…
One of the people in our area (henceforth known as RV) in the Americans and Friends in Portugal facebook group (henceforth AFiP) group mentioned they were using MaxSold to sell…
(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,…
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…
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…
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…
So, somewhere along the line, and this going back to a of couple years ago, (now almost 5!) I say aloud to my wife “I can’t get this one thought…
