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
You could say we are a bit late with our weekly blog. The obvious explanation for our tardiness, of course, is the Christmas weekend. We were, like many others, traveling to see family. So, on the Friday evening we found ourselves on the ferry from… Read More »We have found a home in Portugal!
When you move house, you often come across things you haven’t used in years, or things you simply cannot take with you. So, what do you do with things you no longer need? Sell them? Throw them away? Or… give them away? When we moved… Read More »Decluttering by gifting unwanted items using Freegle
When we moved from The Netherlands to the United Kingdom back in 2011, a lot of things were different. We were younger, and we had a lot less stuff. Rather than using a removal company, we rented a van and, with the help of parents,… Read More »Moving house is 50% perspiration and 50% administration
The most stressful thing about selling a house isn’t the packing. It isn’t the anguish of having to get used to a new place, or even a new country. It is the waiting. Especially when you are selling a house in the UK. We accepted… Read More »Moving house is a very active waiting game…
This week we accepted an offer on our home! This means we can start the process of moving to Portugal in 2023. So, as I’m writing this blog, our dining table is filled with forms and two blazing laptops: we are getting all the admin… Read More »The adventure begins!