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Iron work

Our favorite Portuguese word? It's "blender."

A neighborhood with no name

How damp is it?

“A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” ― George Carlin

Let's talk about health

Hey, aren't you taking some sort of Portuguese class?

Of blow outs, dancing and even a rat

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

The doors of our neighborhood

My kingdom for a well-fitting pair of hikers

Seeking etiquette advice

A Tale of Two Can Openers

So how's Portugal working out?

So today we'll be adding three letters to the alphabet ...

How we chose Portugal

Emergency versus urgent care

A day at the market(s)

In which Amy almost gets run over by the pope

Thirty minutes of sanity-saving spew?

The MEO saga - part III (of III!)

How to watch a soc ... football game

Screaming hordes invade Lisbon

The MEO saga - part II (of ??)

Small appliances

Adventures in speaking Portuguese

And the survey says ...

Switching banks

PARTAYYYY

Narrow streets of cobblestone

It's been a year

Figuring out the main room

Hung out to dry

What we know about you, our readers

The MEO saga - part I (of ??)

Nazaré

Changing addresses - IMT

A big week for Josie

Changing addresses - Finanças

Cultural speedbumps

Transferring utilities

Final thoughts

A Sunday morning in Lisbon

Eurovision predictions

Musings

The quest ...

Reflection on keeping a blog

Flying

Furnishing II: moving from paper to reality

Health care (again)

Changing apartments

As we get ready to move

Buying an apartment: our timeline

What can a song say about a nation?

Table of Contents

Josie's life in Lisbon

Furnishing the apartment

A story of home, in cobblestones

Cobblestones & Rhinos

A change will do you good

Umm ... that was fast!

Eurovision

The real estate market

Braga (again)

Coimbra

Scouting in earnest

Our timeline: From 'wanting to emigrate' to 'Portuguese residents'

Exchanging our US driver licenses for Portuguese ones

A classic Portuguese experience

Being (sort of) vegan in Portugal

Drop us a line

What's next?

THE DECISION

Health care: public vs private

Oeiras

Food, glorious(?) food

Futebol em Braga

That ambitious Braga agenda

We're back in Braga

The case of the missing wallet

A note, a box, and a rabbit hole

Christmas 2.0