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Is it Portugal for us?
What we’ve been up (abbreviated write-up)
When we last visited our slightly less than intrepid couple (us), they had been to a festival that turned out to not be as expected with...
groovyrlm
2 days ago3 min read
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MRI Results
I've been having lower back pain for over a year. With my ever worsening ability to gauge how much time has passed, it could even be 2...
groovyrlm
Jun 23 min read
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UPDATES, BENAGIL and SITA
Faro to Carvoeiro Our Stuff:  We still don’t have our stuff! Waaaaa! I haven’t asked what’s going on because what good would it do?...
groovyrlm
May 285 min read
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Mini blog for a special day
Greetings friends! Did you know that today is International Distinguished Gentleman's Ride Day? No? Where have YOU been? With me...
groovyrlm
May 181 min read
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Progress. And We Love Having Visitors!
My buddy (Pampered Chef) Paula and her husband, Roy, visited us Friday and Saturday. I hadn’t had an opportunity to meet Roy before. The...
groovyrlm
May 52 min read
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Living in Europe (Portugal) - Day-to-day differences
Olá pessoas! (Hello people). Tomorrow is one of modern Portugal’s biggest holidays. 25 de Abril. It was on this day in 1974 that...
groovyrlm
Apr 245 min read
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DINGLEBERRIES
Scott became aware of a fun-sounding festival in a town a little over an hour to the north east of us. It’s called the Smuggler’s...
groovyrlm
Apr 76 min read
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Typical Day
It’s nearly April. Time is passing so quickly, it’s actually alarming to me. I had asked Scott to find a place where we could rent an...
groovyrlm
Mar 222 min read
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My week in Charlotte March 11 – 18, 2025
We had our appointments with Portugal Immigration (AIMA) on Monday March 10th, 2025. It took about an hour and we had everything they...
groovyrlm
Mar 207 min read
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Post started and interrupted March 2nd (2025)
I knew I was going to regret not writing anything for several days. Now I have to try to remember noteworthy happenings and roughly when...
groovyrlm
Mar 165 min read
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Updates – 3 months flew by
This is inside the train station in Lisbon called Oriente, which is the closest stop to the airport. Wowzers, hunh? I actually wrote this...
groovyrlm
Mar 132 min read
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ADVENTURES IN BANKING
Saudações e Cumprimentos meus amigos! I started a different post yesterday but got sidetracked and now I have just so much more to say...
groovyrlm
Mar 69 min read
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SDW-3 N2 Redux
Portugal is a country with great opportunities. I live just a block from the southern terminus of the N2 Road and have learned that it...
groovyrlm
Feb 223 min read
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Everyday life
A couple of days ago, Scott and I went to the MEO store at the mall as I was STILL having some issues with the phone I had to buy for...
groovyrlm
Feb 194 min read
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People, People Doctors and Pickleball
Another week has flown by. We did some walking around this week and saw these trees. Interested mainly because they appear to be pine...
groovyrlm
Feb 153 min read
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Doggies and Doggie Doctors
<I’m writing this with a view towards a) satisfying curiosity and 2) providing information to anyone who may need to do this as well. So...
groovyrlm
Feb 104 min read
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A Cautionary Tale of Woe woe woe woe woe...
I, like many (most?) women, carried a purse for years and years. Sometime in the last years, I was given one of those little pouches you...
groovyrlm
Feb 86 min read
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Pastries
I probably haven’t been here long enough to be writing about this topic. I should probably wait, but, you know, this is an important...
groovyrlm
Feb 24 min read
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SDW-2 Portugal’s version of Route 66.
This 738 marker indicates the southern terminus of the N2 road, down at the corner where the Dominos is. The road was created by an...
groovyrlm
Feb 12 min read
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SDW-1 Greetings Readers!
NOTE: Scott wrote this, but technical difficulties prevent him from posting it himself. It has been six years plus since I began to fly...
groovyrlm
Jan 312 min read
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