Category Archives: Project Portugal

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 →

In the run up to the August trip, whilst we fully intended to have some R & R time, plus get a lot of clearing down, we also wanted to organise seeing the architect, seeing the builder, I also wanted … Continue reading →

You may have read about the lovely people we had met during our stay in April. What happened, well we did keep in contact and they had indeed decided to progress with their purchase. It was great to think that … Continue reading →

Finally on the 18th May the email came with the design. I opened as soon as I saw it was there, I couldn’t wait until Teresa and I got together. Wow! That’s different, yes you guessed it, it was nothing … Continue reading →

During the remainder of April, through June into July there was a lot of back and forth on the emails with the Architect and Maria and Paulo at Remax as we double checked everything that the architect was telling us … Continue reading →

We already had the ferry crossing booked for the next trip, planned for August. That seems such a long time away. So now we needed to find somewhere to stay, we hadn’t booked anywhere till now as we wanted to … Continue reading →

The week was over, it was time to pack up and head home. It had been an incredible week, so much had happened, good, bad and indifferent. Did I mention my back! With everything we were still very positive about … Continue reading →

We had one further meeting with the architect that week, Pedro came to the hotel to present to us his proposal, this didn’t have any real detail of the property we wanted, but was the contract of their fees and … Continue reading →