On the Road Again – Racing the Brexit Clock to Bulgaria Sunday the eleventh of October and my eyes creep open to the early morning light in Medinaceli, Spain. One day, 612 kilometres, and a lifetime away from yesterday’s awakening near Monsanto in Portugal....
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...
I Have a Plan – Departure Date for Portugal In the words of Baldrick – that most famous and beloved of all Brits – I have a plan! “ Baldrick: I have a plan, sir. Edmund: Really, Baldrick? A cunning and subtle one? Baldrick: Yes, sir. Edmund: As...
Our Race to Portugal – Everything Just Got Faster The early morning sun is already hot in the sky as I walk my now familiar circuit around the farm. I try to gather together my darting thoughts to put down on paper. Tomorrow it will be eleven weeks since we...
A New Deadline – Dreaming of a September Migration The heat of a perfect day is cooling, and the crows caw raucously as they jostle for roosting space in their trees by the stream. Iggy’s windows are still wide open, mosquito nets firmly shut, and I loll lazily...
Honey? How About We Move to Portugal? “Honey? How about we move to Portugal?” Jay – bless him – barely missed a stroke on the lunch dishes he was washing up at the sink. “Yeah, that sounds good.” The words drifted, casually, over his shoulders as he...
