Picture this: towering stacks of pristine cookbooks, their spines promising to reveal untold culinary secrets, mocking me from the bookshelves in my home office. Sound familiar? Along with helping families relocate to Portugal through my real estate consulting work, I’ve discovered something magical about this country – it doesn’t just change where you live, it…
From the moment I first arrived in Portugal in 2020, Teena Marie’s “Portuguese Love” began to loop in my mind. Not just a song, but a feeling—a kind of melodic promise. Even then, I sensed that this country would hold me in ways I didn’t yet have the words for. Portugal wrapped me like a…
After much anxiety, angst, and anticipation, it had arrived. Moving Day. On a clear morning in February 2023, we found ourselves at the Hartsfield Jackson International Airport in Atlanta with twelve pieces of luggage, two Great Pyrenees in the largest crates known to man, a 19-year old cat, and hearts full of hope. It was…