What a beautiful town. Great photos. Eric and I have not visited yet but a definite destination for us! There are so many beautiful towns in Portugal that we have visited and here is another one, Setebul. I can see your lure there. One thing for sure that Eric and I tirelessly state multi times a day since we moved into our home in the Algarve only 2.5 weeks ago and that we bought virtually from USA (but had visited the area for 5 years) that for us the 360degrees views that we have around our house are worth millions! We know for absolute sure that we could not live in a home that did not provide a "room with a view" (but that's us).
A year ago we were going to buy a beautiful 15th century house in Silves that needed renovation but aborted buying in the end because of the cost. We now realise that we were captivated by its distress and most probably once renovated it would have lost all that charm (we have been coveting the house in the BBC production of "The Durrells of Corfu" for too long). Also, it had a small walled town garden but no view except the sky and a few rooftops. We come back here after our tireless shopping trips in these first weeks to get the house set up and just feel a sense of bliss, calm, relief and absolute amazement while sitting on the terraces looking out to the glimmer of the sea 20miles away.
I am very pleased that you are enjoying Portugal. But since you are settled, take your time to think and see many options before you decide where you want to live, if anywhere else than Cascais. Algarve has nicer weather and many golf courses. And you also have the sea. But of course you don’t have so much to see and you are further to everything. In the north where I live, it is slightly cooler and it rains more, but life is even easier because it is less populated.
As it is such a small country, you quickly get from one place to the other.
Isn’t it nice to have someone clean your house for you at an affordable price?
Great post! I love the pics that you send. Your brains must be swimming with thoughts but you are certainly enjoying journey to wherever the road takes you.
What a beautiful town. Great photos. Eric and I have not visited yet but a definite destination for us! There are so many beautiful towns in Portugal that we have visited and here is another one, Setebul. I can see your lure there. One thing for sure that Eric and I tirelessly state multi times a day since we moved into our home in the Algarve only 2.5 weeks ago and that we bought virtually from USA (but had visited the area for 5 years) that for us the 360degrees views that we have around our house are worth millions! We know for absolute sure that we could not live in a home that did not provide a "room with a view" (but that's us).
A year ago we were going to buy a beautiful 15th century house in Silves that needed renovation but aborted buying in the end because of the cost. We now realise that we were captivated by its distress and most probably once renovated it would have lost all that charm (we have been coveting the house in the BBC production of "The Durrells of Corfu" for too long). Also, it had a small walled town garden but no view except the sky and a few rooftops. We come back here after our tireless shopping trips in these first weeks to get the house set up and just feel a sense of bliss, calm, relief and absolute amazement while sitting on the terraces looking out to the glimmer of the sea 20miles away.
I am very pleased that you are enjoying Portugal. But since you are settled, take your time to think and see many options before you decide where you want to live, if anywhere else than Cascais. Algarve has nicer weather and many golf courses. And you also have the sea. But of course you don’t have so much to see and you are further to everything. In the north where I live, it is slightly cooler and it rains more, but life is even easier because it is less populated.
As it is such a small country, you quickly get from one place to the other.
Isn’t it nice to have someone clean your house for you at an affordable price?
Awesome! Love your beautiful pictures
I love that you went to Setúbal!! Can't wait to (finally) lay eyes on it myself in a few short weeks. And thank you for the callout. :)
Great post! I love the pics that you send. Your brains must be swimming with thoughts but you are certainly enjoying journey to wherever the road takes you.