May 29
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 had travelled through the Algarve region which we found crowded and spoilt by tourism we finally visited the Alentejo region, specifically the south-west Alentejo.This is where we decided to settle and purchased a large block of land that by Dutch standards would be classed as extravagant, However we needed to purchase a large block in order to build our ...