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Category: Moving to Portugal

After many years of wanting to do something different, I finally made a decision to move to Portugal, initially for a few months living in a caravan on my best friend’s permaculture farm, but it seems to have become a more permanent move. You can follow the adventure here!

From Vila Mea to Gloucester via Harrow

From Vila Mea to Gloucester via Harrow

Posted on December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 by Alison
Long time no blog post, yeah yeah I always say that. So since I wrote in June, I came back to the UK for my dad’s funeral, and then decluttered, packed up, said goodbye to friends and made the l... Read More
Mid-Year Review... and a Decision Made...

Mid-Year Review… and a Decision Made…

Posted on June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 by Alison
Gosh, is it really 6 months since I last wrote anything here? That’s terrible. Must mean I’ve been busy getting on with life, rather than thinking about it, I suppose! So where are we at? ... Read More
The Vila Mea Presepio

The Vila Mea Presepio

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Alison
I was going to include this in my round up post but decided it deserved a post to itself! Towards the end of November some members of a community group in my village started building a ‘presepio... Read More
Rounding Up 2021: November and December

Rounding Up 2021: November and December

Posted on January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 by Alison
November NaNoWriMo The main thing going on in November was that I took part in – and won – NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month – when you writing a 50,000 word novel during the 3... Read More
Rounding Up 2021: September and October

Rounding Up 2021: September and October

Posted on January 14, 2022January 17, 2022 by Alison
September September kicked off with a trip over the mountains to see my friend Andrea (the owner of the farm where I lived when I first moved to Portugal). It was an eventful trip as the car overheate... Read More
Rounding up 2021: July and August

Rounding up 2021: July and August

Posted on January 14, 2022January 17, 2022 by Alison
I really must start doing better at this blogging lark …. after all the excitement of moving to Portugal and blogging about this new life a few times a month, it’s a pretty poor show to ha... Read More
A Kind of Rambling Roundup

A Kind of Rambling Roundup

Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 by Alison
I just felt the urge to blog today. Not sure what about, or why, but I found myself opening the blog site and typing … how strange! So life here carries on much the same as it has for the last y... Read More
Springtime in Portugal

Springtime in Portugal

Posted on May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 by Alison
Having lived here two years now – can you believe that? – I think I can safely say that spring is my favourite season in Portugal. Winter here isn’t as barren as in the UK – af... Read More
Surviving Lockdown #2

Surviving Lockdown #2

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Alison
Two months into 2021, and I realised I hadn’t written anything about this year yet! The trouble is, after being lucky enough to get to the UK for Christmas, I came home to a Portugal plunged into di... Read More
Catching Up, part two: Days Out

Catching Up, part two: Days Out

Posted on January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 by Alison
So here is my second post to catch up on everything I did from June 2020 onwards!!! Once lockdown eased here in May I was keen to get out and explore the local area a bit, so this post will look at a ... Read More
Catching up, part one: The Animals

Catching up, part one: The Animals

Posted on November 3, 2020January 21, 2021 by Alison
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post here … five months, to be precise. I’ve kept meaning to but somehow never found the time or had the inclination. It’s been a funny old time, in ... Read More
How a morning routine sorted my head out

How a morning routine sorted my head out

Posted on June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 by Alison
In my last post I talked about how I’d finally decided I needed a routine to give my days some structure and help me feel like I am actually achieving something in life. And do you know what ... Read More
Monday morning, fresh start, new beginning

Monday morning, fresh start, new beginning

Posted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 by Alison
Warning – this is a long-winded, self-indulgent post about me me me, rather than about life in Portugal. You have my blessing to ignore it! I’ve blathered on here many times about how, despite lov... Read More
Taking things day by day

Taking things day by day

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 by Alison
And so the lockdown continues … Nearly a  month since I last wrote a blog post and nothing has changed, really. Here in Portugal we are into the third 15-day period of lockdown and it’s... Read More
A new home in a locked down world

A new home in a locked down world

Posted on March 23, 2020April 19, 2020 by Alison
Gosh, how things can change in the space of a fortnight. Last time I wrote on my blog, I was preparing to move to my new home in Carregal do Sal. And indeed, that move has happened, and my new house i... Read More
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The Rose Petal Beach
5 of 5 stars
The Rose Petal Beach
by Dorothy Koomson
Dorothy Koomson is fast becoming one of my favourite authors, and this is definitely the best of the four books I've read by her (though the others were marvellous too!). I think the thing about her books is that on the surface they look...
tagged: read-in-2012 and highly-recommended
The Guy Selling Rubbish
1 of 5 stars
The Guy Selling Rubbish
by Jack Williams
A freebie Kindle book and a quick read (well under a hour) that gave me a snigger or two. After attempting to seel so,e rubbish on ebay for a laugh, the guy in the book is challenged by a friend to sell more and make some money. Over the...
tagged: read-in-2013
A Cromer Corpse
3 of 5 stars
A Cromer Corpse
by Kelvin I Jones
I was attracted to this because it had Cromer - my favourite place - in the title. When a body is pulled from the sea off Cromer with an unusual mark carved on it, an ex detective recently relocated from Cornwall to Norfolk for a quiet ...
tagged: read-in-2013 and thriller-crime

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