About us
 Le Puy en Velay Renaissance Festival 2012
We were fortunate to be able to retire from demanding jobs and demanding work schedules about 18 years ago and have thoroughly enjoyed leaving the workplace pressures behind.
Kyushu
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Langres, France 2012
In the background is the bridge over the Guadiana between Spain & Portugal
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Since then we have had a great time with the aid of our motorhome and a map of europe. While buying a retirement place in the sun or taking a geriatric round the world gap year were attractive propositions we decided to first take the motorhome route which offers us variety and flexibility.
At Iguazu Falls
Us in Estepona 2013
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We tried to spend about half the year away from home and have enjoyed some wonderful trips around europe and beyond and met lots of interesting people and visited lots of interesting places both on and off the beaten track. This is also given us a chance to practise those rusty language skills learned at school and learn new languages too.
Brexit put an end to such travel arrangements for us Brits so this is how we ended up settling in Portugal and acquiring residency here. |
So we eventually swapped our motorhome for a place in the sun after all and are now settled in Portugal - still a great stepping off point for exploring the Iberian peninsula and beyond. Getting our vehicle reregistered in Portugal is difficult and expensive so wasn't a starter for us.
However we still enjoy motor homing and one of our recent adventures meant a return to Japan and hiring one.
New Years Eve 2013
Wild camping at a reservoir in Portugal
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Our mission
As Captain Kirk might have said, if only he had had a motorhome instead of the Starship Enterprise, our mission is explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations to boldly go where no motorhome has been before. Or more realistically to visit as many european countries as possible, to stray beyond the EU when safe to do so and have an economical enjoyable and safe retirement until we are too old and knackered to leave our armchairs when we may have to resort to online poker for our thrills.
Happy travelling
Happy travelling
Some of our leisurely retirement snaps
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