I mentioned the other day that I had been enjoying a lot of menus del dia recently. While I always appreciated Portuguese food I have recently grown to really love it and want to eat it all the time. Lunch time here in Portugal is a sacred part of the day. While they don’t have long...

This is actually our second home renovation project that we have undertaken abroad (in a country with a different language and culture to the one we are most familiar with). Renovating houses is far from easy at the best of times, throw language and cultural barriers into the mix and things...

Meet our little dog, Jenny. She is a Spanish dog that we met one day when she trotted past our front door when we were living there. She followed us around for the day which was so cute that we just had to take her in. As no angry Spaniard came knocking on our door we’re pretty sure she...