Feliz or Bom Ano Novo! Happy new year! I hope that the year will bring you joy, health, fun things, the accomplishments you are after, and, of course, world peace for us all. For us,… Read More »Feliz Ano Novo: It’s 2024 and we’re -almost- buying a house!
Our life is basically one big Excel workbook, or Notion Teamspace nowadays. Everything we have planned or organised, roughly since we started living together, has been ‘managed’ officially in some shape or form using digital… Read More »Buying a House in Portugal: Road Trippin’, Box Tickin’, Signature Flickin’…?
It has been a while since we updated the blog. Mostly because we are just living our life at the moment with not many really exciting things to share. We promised, when we invited people… Read More »On the home stretch…?
We aren’t the type of people to clog your inboxes, if you have subscribed, just for the sake of publishing something. If we don’t really have anything groundbreaking to share, it’s highly likely that you… Read More »Life in Espinho so far
The accents and the O ó ãos they haunt me Some say it’s easy, moving countries in this ‘connected world’. Just like we do online, we can ‘simply’ use English as a ‘lingua franca’: a… Read More »Accents and Ãos: Language Learning
Since the removal company didn’t allow alcohol on their transport, we have been without our trusty home brewed beer for a bit of time now. Now that the dust has settled on the move, it… Read More »Back to brewing, Portugal style
5 and 4 weeks ago, respectively, Rene and I got onto a plane and left our life in the UK behind. Since then multiple people have asked us variations of the following questions: The answers… Read More »“How are you finding it? Did you make the right decision?” – Early observations of living in Portugal
The last blog has been a few weeks ago, when we were still waiting for our stuff to arrive. It was written on the day that Rene was due to arrive. On the day our… Read More »Settling in: Unsettling stuff!
Yeah, remember that? Well. It is very much true. While still an exciting adventure, moving internationally is all about patience. And sometimes it runs out a bit. But, let’s start at the beginning! Departure Last… Read More »Remember when we said moving house was a waiting game?
The feeling of being in limbo is finally over! Even though everything, in the end, went rather quickly, it felt like everything took ages, especially waiting for all the house selling admin and a lot… Read More »Things take flight