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20 May, 202420 May, 2024

Part 5. Portugal

2024 Updates Emmigrating Portugal

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…

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John
13 May, 202413 May, 2024

Part 4. Vive la France?

2024 Updates Emmigrating

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…

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John
6 May, 20246 May, 2024

Part 3. Tomorrow is Promised to No One

2024 Updates Italy
Siena street

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…

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Lisa and John
29 April, 202429 April, 2024

Part 2. Let’s Do This

2024 Updates Emmigrating
Contona Piazza

Welcome to the second part of our annotated look back at the process of us moving to Europe. Hopefully, it’s an enjoyable read for you; we’re certainly enjoying going over…

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John
22 April, 202424 April, 2024

Part 1. Can We Do This?

2024 Updates Emmigrating
Kent Washington from above.

Lisa and I had formulated a retirement plan over the first umpteen years of our relationship; a good, solid, dependable, American retirement plan. We would work into our 60s, then move to Ashland, Oregon or one of the neighboring towns. There, we would integrate with the artistic and spiritual communities, volunteer at the Shakespeare Festival, and generally enjoy our life. We even had our eye on a retirement community a little north on I-5 that we always saw when we drove down, and figured that was where we would transition to if we weren’t able to live on our own at some point. It was a fine plan.

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John
15 April, 202415 April, 2024

Residency Renewed!

Immigration Portugal

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…

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Posted in Immigration, Portugal
Lisa Mc Sherry
8 April, 20248 April, 2024

San Francisco Dining: A Collection

Food

I grew up in San Francisco, and family have lived there since the early 70s. I’ve watched it’s food scene for a lot of decades, from the early days of…

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Lisa Mc Sherry
1 April, 20248 April, 2024

Amazing Amsterdam

Europe Traveling Western Europe

“Time and tide waits for no man,” a phrase that comes to us from Geoffrey Chaucer – as one of the earliest documenters of travel and travellers, we’ll draft him…

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Posted in Europe, Traveling, Western Europe
Lisa and John
25 March, 202425 March, 2024

Puttin’ On the Rijks

Europe Traveling Western Europe

Our foray into bite-sized travel has been a success in a lot of ways. We’ve been to two cities we’ve never visited before, in two countries we’ve never visited before….

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Lisa and John
18 March, 202418 March, 2024

Waking Up in Amsterdam

Europe Traveling Western Europe

As has been discussed (ad nauseum) (shut up) we left Vienna in the late evening and drifted off into sleep. The good news is we slept “ok”, which might not…

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Posted in Europe, Traveling, Western Europe
Lisa and John

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