So I mentioned earlier that I'm still "feeling my way" around brands now that I live here. I've worked out some things. I also have a little vignette about our
We're, quite frankly, disappointed that we don't speak better Portuguese yet. We're still trying, and our "Restaurant Portuguese" is pretty solid. We can order anything we want - though, for
This is the stuff you need to know about Portuguese real estate - stuff that people don't know they have to tell you, because they've always done it this way?
So the coffee here is espresso. When you order a “coffee” you’re going to get an espresso. I haven’t seen any “regular” coffee here. You can try to simulate it,
We set foot in Portugal around June 1, 2023. So our one year anniversary was June 1, 2024 - a few months ago. We’ve had a lot of stuff going
So we write a lot about our trials and tribulations - and a friend of ours had just assumed that our relocation over here had been nothing but misery and
The process for getting residency in Portugal is: you do a bunch of prep work, you apply for your visa, you come to Portugal, you go to your SEF appointment,
Once you cut your toenails in a new country, you actually feel like you live there. When I finished there was a strange shift in my feeling - this is
tl;dr - I bought this router and set up Unlocator.com on it. It sits behind my 'regular' network. I use the regular network for work, but the 'media network' for
As I mentioned before, I hooked myself up to Mint Mobile from here in Portugal and it went fine - it actually went quite well! But hooking up Alison's phone