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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
“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…
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….
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…

