Staying in Portugal

5 Traditional Portuguese Dishes you Need to Try

It's time to write about our favourite topic again… FOOD! If we aren't eating, we are thinking about eating, planning our next meal or researching a new restaurant to try. As much as we love to...

The Best Beaches in Alvor, Algarve, Portugal

In Alvor, Algarve you really are spoiled for beaches. There are different styles of beaches depending on what you want. On one hand you have the beautiful and interesting coves of the Três Irmãos...

A Few of the Best Day Trips Away From Lisbon

We loved our 4 weeks in Lisbon and we thought the city was a great place to be in the week and on the weekends. We spent weekend afternoons wandering around the city, checking out the cute streets of...

A Quick Guide to Using Electric Scooters in Lisbon (& Elsewhere)

If you are in Lisbon it's really hard not to notice and talk about the Electric Scooters. They are one of Nathan's favourite things since we have been here. We came across them earlier in the...

"Illegal" Chinese Restaurants in Lisbon - Are They??!!

Having only been in Lisbon 3 days a classmate from language school suggested we head to a place he had been to. He told us in Lisbon there was such a thing as an ‘illegal Chinese...

Visiting Lisbon During a Global Pandemic (Coronavirus/COVID-19)

Just to start with a disclaimer - these are all personal opinions of ours based on our time in Lisbon and August 2020. We had already delayed moving to Portugal from April 2020 and only in August...