This post is part of a series called Spain & France – Winter 2022 Lisa and I have worked diligently to get past the typical sins of the tourist class….
This post is part of a series called Spain & France – Winter 2022 Lisa and I have worked diligently to get past the typical sins of the tourist class….
This post is part of a series called Spain & France – Winter 2022 We named this blog “The Ramble”, but all we really did was fly to Portugal and…
This post is part of a series called Early Days We left off last time teasing the series of milestones that passed us by on a near-daily basis. A little…
This post is part of a series called Early Days So, about that difficult move-in. One thing we’d expected, because we’ve done our research, was that it was going to…
This post is part of a series called Early Days It’s been quite a three-weeks! Here are some of the lights, high and otherwise. Sorry for the multi-parts, but this…
This post is part of a series called Moving Day It’s funny; I’m old enough to consider the idea of posting something from over the Atlantic some kind of fancy-pants…
This post is part of a series called Moving Day [Editor’s note: we’ve been a little busy the last couple of weeks; apologies for going quiet. We’ll be returning to…
This post is part of a series called Divesting Our Household One bite at a time, of course. How do you sell a lifetime’s-accumulation of stuff? Actually, one giant gulp…
This post is part of a series called The Portugal D7 Visa Process Our first few posts here at The Ramble have been recounting the story of how Lisa and…
This post is part of a series called Moving to Portugal We’ve got some big changes coming. At the end of November we’re going to San Francisco to share Thanksgiving…

