portugal
Do You Already Know Portugal?
Let’s get started with some general information about Lisbon “Fantastic beaches, pictorial cities, magnificent monasteries and always sun “. With over 3.000 hours of sun in the year, it belongs to the golden beaches of the Algarve, where holiday-makers are spoiled climatically. In addition, the silver coast (Costa Prata) or the Green coast and historical [...]
Retirement Investment in Portugal – Our Story
And because we did not want to live a great distance from our children we decided Portugal would be the obvious choice as we both spoke Portuguese. We had travelled through Portugal before and knew the area north of Lisbon however the warmer climate of the south met our needs a little better. After we [...]
Constructing Your Own House in Portugal
They had built in Portugal and went through what seemed like a long drawn out process and this scared us a little so we chose to purchase an existing house rather than build as we didn’t want to go through the nightmare of a long drawn out process. Fate however had a different idea on [...]
Alentejo Region in Portugal is Called The New Tuscany
Some describe the Alentejo as the new Tuscany. We found an article in Redhot, magazine of Virgin airlines, the following lines are just a part of that article: “As anyone who’s visited Florence in high season will testify, Tuscany has become more than a tad overcrowded. Luckily for those who want to escape the tourists, [...]