If you are new here, welcome! We are Wayne & Annette and this is our blog about moving to and living in Portugal. If you’ve received it, then you either subscribed or someone was kind enough to forward it to you. If you are a returning visitor, welcome back! Thank you all 😀 Firstly, what’sContinue reading “Waiting for our new home in Portugal”
Category Archives: House building in Portugal
House build update
A long overdue look at where we are with our wood frame house build in Portugal. If you are new here, welcome! We are Wayne & Annette and this is our blog about moving to and living in Portugal. If you’ve received it, then you either subscribed or someone was kind enough to forward itContinue reading “House build update”
Nomads in Portugal
As we write this post, we are in the first week in September. We had just completed our sit near Batalha and were looking after our friends daughter and house-sitting as they went off on a motorcycle club meet-up in the Algarve. Early in the week we dropped off the kitchen sink and some socketsContinue reading “Nomads in Portugal”
Third week of July house update
Welcome back everyone. We had enjoyed a couple of days in Nazerè looking after our friends house and pets again. It was great to spend some time with the gang again and see how their renovations were going too. We finished off the weekend meeting some new friends, having been invited to a BBQ andContinue reading “Third week of July house update”
House-build continues, catching up with friends too.
Another nice and short one this week. So, the second week in July proves to be a productive one on the house front, just like we had hoped. It wasn’t all about the house this week though, as we enjoyed some down time catching up with friends and meeting some new ones too. We startedContinue reading “House-build continues, catching up with friends too.”
Another quiet week in Portugal
Only a short one this week, but some interesting stuff. We spent the weekend with our new friends in Nazerè. We had one night on our own with the pets while they went off to the small village house they are selling near Castelo Branco to do some chores and meet up with some friendsContinue reading “Another quiet week in Portugal”
House build recap and progress…
Ok, for those who don’t know we are having a house built in Portugal. We sold our five bedroom village house in the UK along with all its furniture and belongings in order to live a more relaxed, simpler and warmer life in Portugal. We had always planned to retire and live somewhere different, butContinue reading “House build recap and progress…”
Progress, but windows?
Kathryn and Roman arrived home after their mammoth journey around the UK, and understandably tired, so it was an early night, but not without a celebratory vinho or two to welcome them back. They didn’t arrive empty handed either and we are grateful that we will not be short of Marmite, Yorkshire Tea, or BransonContinue reading “Progress, but windows?”
Staying Local
Carrying on from our last post, we said we were off on some more house sits… But let’s just go over our last week first. It was a bit disappointing to find little progress on the house, but one of the things about living in Portugal we have learned is that things happen differently thanContinue reading “Staying Local”
More delays and the budget gets squeezed even more!
So here we are back in central Portugal with our besties again. We were away at the house-sit further to the north and the weather was finally perking up and spring had definitely arrived, so we were looking forward to getting back and seeing some progress on the house. Unfortunately, and it is such aContinue reading “More delays and the budget gets squeezed even more!”
Our Portuguese Life 