The Motorhome Debate In The Algarve Continues For Another Winter
Every winter when I read my local expat newspapers or view the local forums the stories of the hatred for the motorhome owners rolls on again. I have heard it every year and it always seems to end with the motorhome owners having choice words to say with the locals and vice versa.
I find myself often stuck in the middle – my parents are motorhome owners (or gypsies with engines as the locals call them) and as a tax paying local I can see both sides of the argument.
Will I Ever Live In England Again?
With the state of the economy and Portugal being well and truly in a recession there is always a question for expats whether or not we are better off going home.
Should you stay or should you go?
Well there has always been questions over me and where I will live, mainly because of my age and if you listen to many people I am too young to live in the Algarve and enjoy a better quality of life.
Categories: All Blog Posts, Moving Abroad Tags: algarve, england, living in the algarve, regrets
Do You Ever Dream About Your Family?
The truth is when you move abroad the hardest part of it is being separated from our family. You know the people you trust and love more in life and would often do anything for them.
We had the benefit of being a two hour drive away from our family for the last four years of our time living in England. Our family lived in Bridlington (east Yorkshire coast) and we moved to Manchester in order for me to go to university and experience new things.
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Celebrating My Wedding Anniversary In The Algarve
Yesterday was me and my husband’s 8th wedding anniversary and we celebrated it by going to the pictures together and having a lovely dinner. What got me about it though, was that it was so English!!!
I had dinner in a Chinese and watched an English film – this is all the things I said I wouldn’t do when I moved here, but it is amazing how quickly you actually settle into your ways. We love the convience of things that we know and trust and don’t want to try new things in case we get our fingers burnt.
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The Algarve Still Has My Heart More Than Two Years On
This week it will be two and a half years since I first arrived for my new life in the Algarve. I never wore any rose tinted glasses as I expected it to be hard work which is probably the reason that I still enjoy living here now!
Because sure, it still has its problems – especially if it involves any form filling or visiting government buildings but on the whole it is a fantastic life to have.
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Happy Christmas From Living In The Algarve
Happy Christmas from everyone at Living In The Algarve and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas. Our Christmas will be a relatively quite affair enjoying great food, lots of presents and lots of long walks in the countryside as unlike England I wont have to worry about frost bite!!!!
I love the slow pace of life living in the Algarve and Christmas is a wonderful time to live here. I have never been a snow fan so to have a guaranteed Christmas without snow makes my Christmas. Not that it is guaranteed but most Christmases I wont have to worry about wearing a coat and have enjoyed many Buzz Fizz breakfasts with just jeans and a t-shirt on.
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About
When we moved to the Algarve in the summer of 2008 we found that we were stuck when it came to up to date information and therefore decided to put this blog together so that we could help others.
We are your typical family of three – husband and wife (Dominic and Samantha) and our son Kyle who was seven when we moved to the Algarve. Though he has grown a bit since then. We gave up rainy Manchester in England to start a new life in the Algarve.
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The unpredictable strike system in the Algarve
When you move to a new country you always expect things to be different to the country that you have been used to for so long. However you expect the problems that you had in the country that you leave behind to dissolve and we live in this fairytale world that everything is simply going to be perfect.
When we left England we had got sick to death of all the different strike actions that were taking place in our local area especially when it came to our services been disrupted including the local schools when we had to find alternative care facilities when our children had unexpected days off.
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