Quick blog posts.
Day 3 – Friday Today was HOT so we didn’t do as much. The only thing we made time for was the big parade in the evening. And that was a good choice, I now have a much better sense of how parades work here. Maybe this is how parades work everywhere, and I just…
Day 2 – Thursday We took an English-language tour in the morning, which I highly recommend. It was about 24C out, and I stupidly didn’t bring a hat or water because it’s the first really warm day in Braga this year. By 11:30am I was worried about keeling over. Memo to self: hat is mandatory….
It is time for Braga’s premiere festival of the year, Braga Romana*, a celebration of the city’s 2000-year old history. This is my first time here, we have guests who are experiencing it for the first time with us, and the weather is warm and sunny all weekend. Wooo! (*To translate Portuguese articles, you can…
Last week Marty and I went to Lisbon for a couple of nights to attend the Global Expat Summit. We’d been invited by Fresh Portugal, the firm that is handling a lot of our legal and financial transition work for the past year. It was … odd. It was a good event, but I think…
This is the first post of a series of 12, where I show the changing look of the Jardim de Santa Barbara over a year.
Marty and I have been going together to doctor’s appointments for a while now. It’s something couples often do as you get older, both for moral support, and so that one of you can help the other remember instructions, dates, and follow-ups. And in Portugal, there’s the added dimension of language. Even though we try…
In getting my health care organized in this new place, it turned out I was overdue for a mammogram. Given my family history, my new doctor decided this was a priority, so within a week I had an appointment to get squished. (This was back in October.)