Category Archives: 2012

If you have been reading this blog for a while you will remember an earlier posting were I wrote about the couple we had met earlier in the year who had now completed the purchase of their property. Well Jules … Continue reading →

Making calls on my O2 UK calling plan on my iPhone was proving quite expensive. I expected that if I needed to call the UK or the UK calls me it would cost, but I hadn’t thought about the calls … Continue reading →

I had heard that we should allow a fair amount of time to sort out opening a bank account and Maria and Paulo had advised us that the bank would need passports and a small amount of cash to open … Continue reading →

Later in the afternoon Pedro called Marco and it was set for us to meet in a village not too far from our plot, Orca. It turned out the Marco was also the mayor of Orca, this could be useful, … Continue reading →

One of things we really wanted to do whilst in Portugal this visit was to check out the architect, Maria and Paulo had recommended them, but to date we had only met them either in our hotel or in the … Continue reading →

I think it was on the second day, whilst cutting away at the weeds I heard a shout over the noise if the little Honda engine beating away over my shoulder. I stopped to greet a middle aged gentleman making … Continue reading →

A quick survey of the property revealed that the drought of the past few months had taken its toll on the stream, it was now bone dry, along with the work we had done at Easter had all helped to … Continue reading →

We arrived at the hotel late afternoon; it was about 25 minutes drive from our property, so we got that right.  Finding the actual hotel in Covilhã wasn’t too hard either, there only seemed to be one main road up … Continue reading →

We were following the same route that we have done at the end of 2011, crossing from Newhaven to Dieppe on the ferry, and then driving down through France and Spain into Portugal. The plan was to complete it over … Continue reading →

Finally it was time to get the car ready. The first thing was to give the car a good clean, both inside and out. Then it was time to look at that huge pile of equipment I had collated over … Continue reading →