https://www.cyclingeu.com/860136/e-bike-vs-car-in-portugal-what-actually-wins-travelhacks-ebike-silveroast/ E-Bike vs Car in Portugal: What Actually Wins #travelhacks #ebike #silveroast #Bicycling #Biking #BikingPortugal #Cycling #EBike #ExpatLife #ExpatLifeInPortugal #ExpatsInPortugal #LifeAbroad #LifeInPortugal #LivingInPortugal #MoveToPortugal #MovingToEurope #MovingToPortugal #Portugal #QAndA #SmallTown #WalkableCities
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2026 is going to be a fun year. January has been chilly and rainy here in the Algarve, but here are a few highlights so far.
I spent a couple of days in Mértola, an hour north of me. Saw a little waterfall, a castle, and a super cute river town.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/598495/ Expats ditch Spain for country with lower cost of living and great healthcare | Europe | Travel #BestCountryForExpats #BritishExpats #CheapestCountryExpats #EU #Europe #Expats #LifeInPortugal #Portugal #PortugalExpats #RelocatingToPortugal #Spain
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Boom! 📈 The number of Americans living in Portugal has jumped by 36%! 🇵🇹 What makes the country so appealing: safety, culture, climate, visas ? A growing expatriate phenomenon. Read the full analysis #ExpatLife #USAtoPortugal #LifeInPortugal #Immigration #MovingAbroad #Americans
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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#braganca #portugal #march2025 #sonyilce7 #StreetPhotographyPortugal #BragancaStreetPhotography #PortugalStreets #LifeOnTheStreet #CitiesOfPortugal #UrbanPortugal #PhotoDocumentary #PortugalInPhotos #PortugueseReality #StoriesOfPortugal #PhotojournalismPortugal #LifeInPortugal #VisualEthnography #TraditionsOfPortugal #PortugueseCulture #FacesOfPortugal #PortuguesePeople #CulturalHeritage #AuthenticPortugal
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Where does the time go?!? One year ago, my husband & I arrived in Portugal to live here.
Last year at this time we were jetlagged and exhausted. It had been a massive sprint leading up to departure. Getting all our visa applications sorted was a lot of work. So was winding down my business and selling/clearing out the house.
After arriving here, it took me a few weeks to settle down mentally and feel less overwhelmed. Now it feels “normal” to live here. It’s home. No regrets.
In year 2, we’re not planning any major changes. We’re staying where we live for quite a while yet. Which means we can keep learning about our new country, traveling, and just having lots of fun.
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Someone said that if a thing doesn’t scare you that it’s not worth doing. I’m trying to keep that in mind… This week the Portuguese for Foreigners class started. These classes are free, subsidized by the government to help us assimilate. What’s so scary about that you ask?
Well, it’s an immersion class. No English (or used very, very minimally as a last resort). Yikes! Intimidating. 😳
I’ve been studying on my own for about 9 months now, making progress in a haphazard way. At this point, I know some random words & grammar rules.
I do see the benefit of immersion. It’s tough love LOL.❣️ However, I can’t help but think that if the instructor would selectively explain or define certain things in English, our comprehension would go way up. Because now, I’m not understanding at least 50% of what’s being said. But I am surprised at how much I do comprehend. The instructor tries very hard with gestures to help us understand.
So, we’ll see how this goes. 🇵🇹👩🎓📚
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Hellooooo Lagos! 😍 The hubby and I are knocking off seeing one more touristy town in the western Algarve before it gets crowded. And it doesn’t disappoint.
Along the gloriously beautiful cliffs there are several beaches, trails (with many surprisingly dangerous spots), and a boardwalk (that’s fairly new). Just stunning.
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Today we went over to Cacela Velha, a tiny little town near where we live. It’s up on a hill overlooking the Ria Formosa (a nature preserve with a system of barrier islands, beaches, canals & inlets that connect to the ocean). The view is just gorgeous.
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The hubby and I have been living in Portugal for 6 months. We’re settled in to our flat. We’re familiar with our town. We’ve met really great friends, expats and locals. We got a car so we’re more mobile. And we got a puppy (we’re older than we once were lol).
Although we have a lot left to learn, residing in a different country is
not overwhelming anymore. I still regularly have ‘how the heck did we get here’ moments…in a good way.Over the next 6 months we’ll do more exploring. We’ll learn firsthand what summer & tourist season brings. Continually learning the language is a priority (English is common but Portuguese is more common). And we’ll get the next step of our residence visas squared away.
Pic: Our little town. Marina on bottom left. Riverside park on the left (we live next to that park overlooking the river). Pine forest towards the top, in between town & the ocean. The tiny little islands at top left are Spain, which is across the river.
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Yesterday we did a lovely boat tour of the Ria Formosa. There are barrier islands and inlets throughout to explore. It’s very beautiful-my amateur pics don’t do it justice.
Our tour guide pulled the boat up to those shoreline rocks and had us climb up the rocks to explore a bit on foot. I’m not graceful enough to pull that off well…but it was fun.
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We received the 6 big boxes that we shipped from the US to Portugal. 👏After almost 7 months (long story), I have been discovering what the heck I packed. I have a bunch of baskets, a few favorite (small) decorative items, pictures, summer clothes, more shoes, my favorite fancy weekend travel bag, a comforter that I made, and a bunch of sewing supplies (just having my scissors again is delightful). Only one thing got broken which is amazing. Now I’m happily fussing about with where to put things in our flat. 😊
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After moving it took me a little while to prioritize plants on the porches…Got a good start on greenery to make our apartment feel like home. 🪴
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Update: We got our Portugal immigration appointments scheduled for late July. 👏🥳🙌 The appointments are up in Coimbra which is a cute college town north of Lisbon. We haven’t seen that area yet so we’re looking forward to a fun road trip.
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Today is March 1, and that means our 4-month visa is expired. Normally we’d have had an appointment with immigration by now and we’d be all set with 2-year residency permits. But but but…! The Portuguese government office is going thru a huge switchover (SEF to AIMA) for handling immigration. There are no immigration appointments available and they have a massive backlog (and I can imagine there’s a slew of system, data, process & people issues). So they’ve automatically extended visas for everyone like us to June 30th. That’s great…however, the visa extension only applies to Portugal - meaning we can’t travel to any of the other Schengen countries (including crossing the border into Spain next door which extends shops & restaurants for us). I know it’ll all work itself out, but the bureaucracy is a headache. We did hire a relocation company to schedule the appointments for us, so the bright side is that we aren’t the ones doing phone calls every single day.
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It’s a gorgeous spring day for a walk on the avenida. Spring has sprung in the Algarve. 🍃🌺🍃
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After having a rental car last month, we realized we really want to have our own car. Our town is highly walkable so we won’t quit walking…but our ability to go hiking and exploring Portugal will be much easier—especially with #RigbyTheDog.
We decided to buy ‘slightly used’ for a few reasons. The biggest reason is to eliminate the extra 23% tax added to the price of new cars (but not used).
We visited a car lot and picked out a 2022 Opel Crossland with 20.000 km (12,000 miles). Almost all the inventory are manual stick shifts (which is fine with us--heck, I learned to drive with “3 on the tree” ha ha). Very few cars in our price range have a backup camera (but I insisted on it). Few cars come with a spare tire (hubby got one added tho).
No price haggling games here which is nice. But…It’s been 2 weeks & we’re still waiting for delivery. It’s so weird how much time they need *after* it’s sold to prepare it. “Portuguese Patience” is a life skill.
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It just finished raining here and as the sunset gets started, the sky is showing off again.
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We’ve been in our new apartment in Portugal for about 60 days now, and it’s starting to feel like home. For me, a huge part of home is surrounding myself with “my stuff” that feels like me (something my husband doesn’t really get, but he humors me). The sliding doors in the living room & both bedrooms are the biggest reason we chose this apartment…I’m still in awe every single day of being here. 😍
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I highly recommend taking a mid-December walk on the beach. 😍
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Well looky, looky I’m famous! ☺️
The pic of me & the hubby (Bob) + our new friends (Tracy & Bobby) is in the Dec 2023 edition of East Algarve magazine (which isn’t online yet). The author Veronica took the photo while we were all hanging out having cocktails recently. Both couples had just returned to Portugal “properly” with our approved residence visas. -
Why yes I *did* buy train tickets today using only Portuguese. (Sure it's only a few words but a gal's gotta start somewhere.)
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One cultural thing here in Portugal that I’m still adapting to — greetings or the lack thereof.
Friends & family:
The women (& some men) do air kisses on both cheeks. Still very unnatural for me, but I’ll get the hang of it. 😘People you don’t know:
When passing someone, it’s rare for locals to acknowledge strangers. No smile, no little nod hello, not a lot of eye contact. That keeps surprising me. (Gotta say though…once they do know you, it’s a different story. We’ve been stunned a couple times by how warm, kind & generous locals have been to us.)People you do know (& interacting with shopkeepers & such):
A generic olá (hello) works anytime — but everyone really does change their greeting based on the time of day.
Bom dia in the morning.
Boa tarde in the afternoon.
Boa noite in the evening.
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It’s a rainy afternoon here. Though it’s actually quite warm and pleasant (20 C / 68 F).
That seagull seems to be enjoying himself.
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Standing on my porch I see an elderly man in his traditional Birmingham-style hat cycling slowly by on his bicycle. As I’m mulling over what a quintessential European image it is...
I hear a neighbor start blasting Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time. 😝
Of course the whole world is a never ending series of contradictions but once in a while there’s a “record-scratching” type of moment. Very humorous indeed.
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Good morning world.
Taken from my patio while sipping tea. Seriously this view is amazing. My amateur photography skills don’t do it justice.
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Exhibit A why the hubby is sweet to me. Where we live now we walk everywhere (which is great). The main area of town with the shopping area is about .75 km (.5 mile) from our flat. A couple times now I have needed a hand carrying stuff & he meets me to help. Although…the trade-off is I have to endure the “mother rucker” and the “I want to ruck with you” jokes all the way home. 😂
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Me sending text that says “On my way to you. With potting soil if you want a rucking opportunity.”
Husband’s immediate text reply: “I shall come your way.”
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Got a fairly decent spot to work this afternoon. It’s a little breezy and about 23 C (~73 F).
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The swallows sure do put on a show. This video clip doesn’t come anywhere close to doing them justice…but their aerial skills are really spectacular.
The sunrise isn’t too shabby either. 😍
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When the bigger fishing boats come back in later in the day, the seagulls following the boats are quite entertaining to watch.
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Lots of fishing boats going out on a Saturday morning. It’s so peaceful…although I’m trying to work and I keep having to jump up to see what’s going by. 😂 😂
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It’s an absolutely lovely evening for a post-dinner walk.
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Today we finally took a walk all the way down to the beach to check it out. It’s called Praia de Santo António. It’s 2 km (~1.3 miles) from our doorstep.
Our best way to reach the beach on foot is a trail through the pine forest called Caminho dos Três Pauzinhos. It’s a delightful walk. I understand that there are a lot of chameleons around…so I’ll need to be on the lookout next time.
It’s closed now, but there’s a cafe and umbrella/chair rentals during the season.
VRSA isn’t really known for its beaches—which is great because it means the tourist season here isn’t as crazy as other towns in the Algarve (so I’m told).
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Something we’ve never seen in Lisbon - a double rainbow. Happy to see it and to have the rain! #lisbon #lifeinportugal