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 language that is used as a global means of inter-community… 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 was time to address that. Preparations As we also ran… 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 to those questions are all in the realm of ‘we… 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 lovely Lily was being cruised through France and Spain due… 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 time this week, I was where Rene is now. Driving… 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 of back and forth about the actual completion date. But…… Read More »Things take flight
Now that our trip is coming to an and, we can say it has been a great success. Not only did we manage to get all the things organised that we wanted to organise, but it has also reaffirmed our belief that we will very… Read More »Wrapping up our trip
This weekend we traveled to Porto to collect the keys to our new rental home in Portugal! Saddle up for a longer post! Espinho chaos We traveled to Porto on Friday morning. We had arranged with the estate agents that we would collect the keys… Read More »Collecting the keys to our new home
Now that we have started packing more of our stuff, it becomes a bit of a mindset. Everything you see gets evaluated (and often over and over again). Should it stay or should it go? Do we need it in the next few weeks? What… Read More »Should it stay or should it go
We never claimed this move would be easy. Of course, we are working hard to make things go as smoothly as possible, but some things you cannot really prepare for. One of these things is reality hitting you and having to make the tough decisions,… Read More »The art of letting go: We have to sell our beloved campervan