Another crafternoon for me yesterday with our little group of arty friends. The last one you might remember is the sip and paint, which was basically painting together with copious amounts of wine. Could art get any more fun!? This time around it was gelli plate printing which is something that is completely new to …
As we come to the end of February we are busy getting our accommodation ready for this years holiday season. From March onwards the weather starts to warm up so we will be opening our doors for 2023 in 2 weeks time. Now we appreciate everyone is different when it comes to enjoying the weather …
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One of the most beautiful ways I've explored the country side here is by horseback. I hadn't been on a horse since I was a child so I was a little nervous. One of our good friends offers horseriding lessons here and I decided to go on a sunset horseride with her. It was amazing …
So Sunday the 29th of January, myself (Mike) and Elvis attended a motorcycle event at Escuderia Castelo Branco racetrack. Organised by the team at Escuderia, the event was totally free and designed to get kids more involved in Flattrack/Supermoto motorcycle racing, by giving them the use of motorcycles, leathers and all the gear and providing …
If you're following us on social media you would have seen (hopefully) that we are giving away a 3 night stay for 2 people at our beautiful farm in Central Portugal. We moved to Portugal 2 and half years ago and had the dream to set up a tourist hotspot for those who enjoy all …
We had a snow day and it was so much fun! As we were sat in our favourite local cafe, Cafe Central, in the village, having our post school drop off coffee with friends we were watching the Portuguese news channel of the treacherous weather up at the Serra de Estrela mountain, just over an …
So Christmas this year was a very different experience to usual... for some reason, after a dinner and few drinks ( a lot of drinks) some of our friends and us decided it would be a great idea to open a bar for the Christmas festival in the village. Always wise to discuss these things …
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If you are following us on social media it's nothing knew to know we've been a lot of car trouble over here. This has put pay to us doing much exploring and getting out and about as much as we'd like. Finally we have working car so we have been nipping out for the day …
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It's common knowledge that here in Portugal there is a huge industry of wine making. Not only wine making for resale but for their own consumption. Most Portuguese people make their own wine at home, once a year when it's grape harvesting season they will spend a day picking, squeezing and then it's left to …
Continue reading Grape picking and wine making- A very Portuguese day.
Once a year our friends go all out for their sons birthday and build the absolute best water slide! As we haven't been here for too many years this was the first one we went to... and it was insane. https://youtu.be/SDJbtTmHu9o They spend a few days preparing the ground and building a water slide down …
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