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Why didn’t I study Portuguese instead of Spanish?

We have now lived here on the Silver coast for one year and ten months, and I can just about string a Portuguese sentence together.…   read more»

Packing and Marmalade

I haven’t been back to the UK for about 18 months, so next week should be interesting. The Boy King and I are heading back to Blighty for a bit of bonding with the family. The plan is to have a week seeing the sights of London and North Essex and then back home to Portugal with my niece and nephew in tow. So it…   read more»

Good News Week!

Have you ever had one of those weeks when everything seems to go right? I’m not talking about winning the lottery or finding gold but lots of little things that just sort of fall into place.…   read more»

The Best of British

When they initially talked about opening a shop devoted entirely to selling British Food, opinion was divided. It’s a fact that some British ex-pats crave certain items from home and can find no substitute, on the other hand, there are those who came to live here on the Silver Coast of Portugal with a view to accepting everything the country has to offer and saving…   read more»

The Price of Happiness

It is a fact of life that the majority of ex-pats who come to Portugal from the UK arrive with a bank balance bulging with the proceeds from the sale of their house. Even in these uncertain financial times it is almost certain that the property they sold in England fetched far more than the price they paid for their dream home on the Silver…   read more»