Welcome back to our blog and our journey to move to a new life in Portugal. If you had read the previous post, we left you in the city of Worcester. We had the opportunity to travel a little thanks to our sons in-laws. It was great to catch up with them and we spentContinue reading “Staying in Worcester for a while”
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Leaving Portugal (again)
We were having to travel back to the UK to deal with a family related issue. It was a bit of a shame that we would be missing a main part of the construction phase of our house in Portugal, but as the old adage goes…’family comes first’. We had returned to our temporary homeContinue reading “Leaving Portugal (again)”
Central Algarve – House Sit #2
After our brief visit to Taveira, we headed off back towards the central region of the Algarve. We decided to take the motorway incurring the tolls, but we had driven almost every other route imaginable while exploring and visiting, so for brevity’s sake the quickest and most direct route was best. We were very muchContinue reading “Central Algarve – House Sit #2”
Eastern Algarve House-sit #1
We left Albufeira looking forward to seeing the owners and pets of our next house sit. We had been out there to find the property and meet up with them for lunch while we were in Albufeira, so had a good idea how long it would take. We wanted to arrive early enough to spendContinue reading “Eastern Algarve House-sit #1”
Albufeira in April – Week 3/4
This blog is taking place in the future. By the time this is published we are already on our second house sit. We ran short of data at the tail end of our Albufeira stay, and the wifi was not very great at our first house sit. So this is playing catch-up a bit, butContinue reading “Albufeira in April – Week 3/4”
Albufeira in April – Week Two
Only a week has passed but quite a change in the weather! It started to warm considerably after the weekend, so this week has mainly been a ’stay at home’ week. It made sense to us as we had the pool and the beaches were all walking distance too. There was still the usual shoppingContinue reading “Albufeira in April – Week Two”
Albufeira in April – Week One
We had a really enjoyable trip down to Albufeira. Deciding to take the toll-free route for the entire journey. It was really quite pleasant, and different from the coastal route we took to Lagos a few weeks earlier. We only had one stop along the way on the outskirts of Grândola for supplies and aContinue reading “Albufeira in April – Week One”
House Update
We are posting this just to let you all know that we are about to depart on a long needed break. (Stop laughing!). We never really got a long holiday last year, so we started looking for a place to go this year. At the back of our mind was the hope that work wouldContinue reading “House Update”
House-sit in the Algarve
It has been a while since our last update. Quite a bit to cover then… So, we both thought we could do with some time away from the constant waiting for things to happen with the build. Plus we both wanted to get further afield and visit more of Portugal and eventually Spain and theContinue reading “House-sit in the Algarve”
Ups and downs!
This journey was never going to be plain sailing, especially given the world events happening during this time! We were very pleased to get our build permit in December, and here we are in March 2022 and still not even broken ground! Lots of reasons really, but to try and sum up, we received theContinue reading “Ups and downs!”
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