The Good Squad

We did it! We bought a farm in Portugal, or as they are known by here a 'quinta'. Keys to our house & future The last two months have been intense and very exciting. Here's the 'what, how and why' of us buying our little slice of heaven in Portugal.... We arrived in Portugal from Spain at the back end of March with the express intention of finding out if we could buy a house on a piece of land that we originally spotted in November last year and fell in love with. We're not entirely sure what led us to Portugal in the first place. I have a vague recollection of discovering Penamacor (our location) online before we went travelling. I liked the name, four syllables which roll nicely off the tongue and a landscape that looked divine. Then, later, when we were in France in the oyster region after grape picking last October, we met a lovely, slightly eccentric young lady walking her cat and three dogs on the beach who we got chatting to; she urged us to ...

It's a leisurely pace  of life in Portugal It's been over two months since I last posted, mainly because we are in the midst of some exciting and important changes, and I kept putting off writing until matters had been concluded, so I could do a 'big reveal'. However such is the gentle pace of life here in Portugal that things don't seem to get concluded very quickly, so whilst time certainly flies when you're having fun, you can't always achieve as much as you hoped or intended, especially over the easter period which is celebrated to the max here with numerous public holidays and local festivals. So instead I'll bring you up to date with how things currently stand and fill you in on what Portugal's been like for us this spring. Happy to be back in this gorgeous place We left Spain at the end of March and headed straight for Penamacor, in mid Portugal - a charming, picturesque town we visited briefly in November and where, despite losi...