How to make friends with the Portuguese! 

How to make friends with the Portuguese! 

There is no doubt that it’s daunting moving to a new country. Among all the usual angst, you can get preoccupied with thoughts of how you’ll fit in. Especially since some local Portuguese residents are getting ‘foreigner fatigue’ with the influx of expats from all...
How to get the best Home Office in 2021

How to get the best Home Office in 2021

We’ve now had Covid-19 around for just over a year. Suddenly every single home now has some sort of home office. Some work at the dinner table or wherever else in the house they are able to find a spot. If you are one of those people that have realised, that...
Learning European Portuguese

Learning European Portuguese

Wow, learning Portuguese is not easy. It’s the pronunciation and the complexity of the grammar that makes it tough for me. Ask me to say anything with a double r such as Carro (Car) and my throat immediately tenses up. My Portuguese teacher told me that it’s the...