Category Archives: 2013

If you read back about a year ago we opened a Portuguese bank account with Montepio, we have received excellent service from the account, although we haven’t made that many transactions, but in the past couple of months we have … Continue reading →

Oh well that’s another trip over, time to go home again, the big difference this time is we now have to get down to doing the comparisons on the builders and make the decision on how and when to proceed. … Continue reading →

During the past few days we had received a few emails from the English builders with links to various articles and youtube items to demonstrate some items along with examples of status reports etc. On the Friday as promised the … Continue reading →

The Portuguese builder as promised turned up at about 8:00pm and we gathered with Marc and Mieke around the table on in the patio area. We then spent I guess a good couple of hours discussing various things about Portuguese … Continue reading →

Today must have been the worst day of all the trips so far. We had had a lovely day out and were making our way back to the Quinta around 7:00pm. As we passed a cafe on the road into … Continue reading →

I thought it would be good just to do a blog on some of the less “business” like parts of the trip, as it wasn’t all work and no play, we did have some relaxing time, some of us more … Continue reading →

We had arranged to meet the Portuguese builder back at the Quinta between 1:00 and 2:00 pm to go and see the inside of a house he had built in the local village. We had also arranged to meet the … Continue reading →

We love Portugal and in general the Portuguese people, but as with all cultures and countries there is a bad element. The temperatures every day whilst we where there would reach the low 40’s in the afternoon, so the ground … Continue reading →

We spent the day at the plot, generally getting on with the usual stuff of strimming and pruning, we made sure we were back at the Quinta in time to eat and be ready to meet the builder. Remarkably on … Continue reading →