Category Archives: Project Portugal

Learning the lingo

Ok so things are starting to get serious now. Maybe we might be able to do something, but what about the language, should we learn some, but we don’t know if Portugal is right for us! Will we be able … Continue reading

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How long would it take?

How long did we think this project was going to take? We had already read about the, shall we say, relaxed way or working and in fact had seem this in trying to arrange visits to the estate agents. We … Continue reading

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4 Days

So what were we going to do in the 4 days we had, just drive around? Do they have estate agents? How does the process work? We really didn’t have much of a clue. So back on the good old’ … Continue reading

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The plan starts to evolve

As we lead up to the August period the plan evolved even more, the decision was that we would drive, we couldn’t go until the October half term as Teresa is in education. It was a long way for just a … Continue reading

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A rough plan is formed

For a number of years we had enjoyed 3 or 4 holidays a year and always liked to have the next one booked or at least arranged before completing the one we were on. It was during the early part … Continue reading

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The Challenge

So where in Portugal? It’s a big country. What sort of area would we like, Touristy, Rural or Urban? Are we still right to go for Portugal? There were so many basic questions which we needed the answers too, but … Continue reading

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An idea is hatched

During 2010 we discussed the idea over and over; in fact probably most Sundays whilst watching “A Place in the Sun” we evaluated a lot of different countries during this period, but always seemed to come back to Portugal. It … Continue reading

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