Residency in Portugal – Travel Malarkey Get Our CRUE It’s Thursday the first of October 2020 as I wake up for the first time as a legal resident of Portugal. The early morning sun is glinting through Iggy’s not quite shut blinds, and it is a pleasantly cool...
Route Map to a New Life – Scotland to Portugal Hi, and welcome to the first in a new series of Travel Malarkey “Route Map” articles. In this new series I’m going to make up a number of route maps, showing all the destinations we’ve...
Guimaraes – The First Capital of Portugal It’s Tuesday the 3rd of March and the rain is teeming down in the small city of Guimaraes, thirty odd miles northeast of Porto. Iggy has spent a wet and windy night tucked against the face of a hill in the large,...
Agueda – Bright Colours & Portuguese Cemeteries The rain is spattering against Iggy’s protective walls, and the early morning light is grey and chill outside the shutters. We are up bright and early to leave the unbecoming free Aire in Agueda behind...
Costa de Lavos – Surf Sand Dunes & Coronovirus It is Saturday the 29th of February, and the morning bread van blares it’s horn next to Iggy’s parking spot in Costa de Lavos, Portugal. As I type I hear the voices of our fellow vanfolk in the...
It’s Wednesday the 6th of March, and Iggy the Hymer motorhome is contemplating the road after two days staying in the free Aire in Evora. (N 38.56349, W 7.91651) It is a bit of a thought to start that driving. Both exciting, and sad, as today we will drive...
