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Porto, Portugal Impressions

Six years ago we met our dear Portuguese friend Helena, during a two weeks vacation in Portimão/ Praia da Rocha, in the Algarve. Ever since we have wanted to visit her in her hometown of Porto and check the city out for a potential retirement move there. After dropping the rental car off at Eindhoven …

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Two Weeks in Portugal’s Algarve Region

It was early January 2020 – Covid 19 was just an inch away from stopping the world in its travel tracks – and we were in the Netherlands visiting our family and being that it was winter, it was very cold, dreary and damp. Typical weather for Holland in the early days of the year. …

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