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Continue reading →: All I want is a scone, pleaseWho knew that buying bread could be so difficult. Three bakeries, three very different processes. Over the past month, we’ve grown accustomed to and grown to love our weekly farmer’s market. Fresh vegetables, fish, meat, flowers and fresh baked bread and treats. Basic Portuguese is required. You’ve got to know…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the saunaMelissa doesn’t get the sauna. When we visit Scandinavia, you people have your work cut out for you. We have a great friend who planned to install one in his house and she just looked at him head scratchingly on many levels (why at all? why the expense? what is…
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Continue reading →: In search of good measuresAs we acclimate to life in Portugal most things are easy, some things are hard. Like simply finding a tape measure. OK, so its going to be in centimeters. No worries. So are all of the dimensions on everything for which you’d need to measure. But just finding one proved…
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Continue reading →: Saying farewellIt’s not goodbye. It’s farewell. Goodbye is so final. Farewell is a wish for return. It’s not permanent. It’s a transition. A passing phase. A new beginning. And that’s what this is. It’s hard to imagine living in another country, as we sit here. Right here, right now. But that’s…
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Continue reading →: Breaking with routine(s)For about thirty/twenty five years (for me/Melissa), with the exception of vacations and holidays, we’ve done the same thing on Mondays. Go to work. That might have meant going to an airport to fly somewhere for a day or week or going into an office or going upstairs to a…
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Continue reading →: And We’re OffThis is the first of our planned to be weekly posts that we are calling “Sunday Journal”. This blog is more about our experiences, than about travel tips. So here we go… issue #1. Well, its here. After years of planning we are heading out to get moved into our…
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