Until day 10 of this month, as a non-European, you can enter the continent and stay, live, or work here with a visa. It doesn’t matter which country or border; Europe is one, isn’t it? We Europeans don’t need this. Entering Portugal is easy with the D7 visa You can apply to be eligible for […]
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Joining the queue properly, waiting your turn – no problem because there are three counters open, staffed and all. Hurray. I just rolled off the Flixbus and ran to the train station. Became a Flixbus fan in a short time It was a discovery of nephew Bart who came by in November to help out.
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We have three electricity connections here, and twenty-five solar panels. Installed years ago, it seemed a nice offer from the EDP – you pay off the installation in five years, and in the meantime, you can immediately start using the solar power. Electricity is expensive here, so it seemed worth it The EDP is the
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Excuse me, dear readers, we’ll have to generalize here… whether or not the Portuguese read My experiences here in the rural areas suggest they don’t. When we were still an “Alojamento rural,” before the COVID pandemic hit, I rarely saw a book on the bedside table when I went to do the room. Quite a
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We have a new one. Since the second round of elections on February 8th, it’s been clear: António José Seguro is the new president of the country It wasn’t clear enough in the first round, because a presidential election must end in a majority of at least one vote more than 50%, which he didn’t
Viva the president! Read More »
That the weather gods fart – which is nothing to them but a hurricane-force storm for us – okay, apparently it’s bad to hold it in. But what the weather gods don’t realize is that their puffing has quite a few consequences for us little people. If your roof is half blown off by their
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Of course, that one too. It seems we won’t be spared much from January 27th onwards (1). And what’s happening? The wind is blowing very hard, it’s pouring down from time to time, and it won’t stop until tomorrow morning. Then we’ll get a day’s respite, and on Sunday it’ll be back. They say. Is
The worst thing about our current situation is that the forecasts are so contradictory. I’m getting messages from my friend Jutta, who’s checking the German app; someone just rushes by and quickly reports that two more storms are on their way; the IPMA (Portugal’s Metoffice) says it’s only going to be 15 km/h windy with
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Well, it’s official: I do not like January, and I’m not alone. January 2026 sucks especially If months were people, August would be my favorite. A generous, sweet, warm, middle-aged woman who can cook like a pro and is very fertile. Sister Juli is similar, but more modest, and other sister June even more so.
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