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Weather in Portugal: What’s the Winter Really Like?

If you’re thinking about embarking on life as an expat in Portugal, the weather is likely to be a contributing factor. Here are a former expat’s top tips to get to grips with the climate all year round. After spending five winters in Portugal’s Algarve, I’m spending this one in the UK. It’s therefore impossible not to nostalgically look back on what I’m missing, especially when I walk, yet again, into my freezing garden, to move all the plants and furniture back to their rightful place after they’ve all blown up one corner of the patio.

Portugal Named by Huffington Post as “Best Place to Live or Retire”

Find homes in Portugal via our property portal. According to a recent Huffington Post feature, Portugal is the “best place in the world to live or retire.” Will the report result in a new flood of interest in the country? Portugal has been named as “the best place in the world to live or retire” in an article in The Huffington Post this week.

Nine wonderful reasons to live in Portugal

Find homes in Portugal via our property portal. If you’re struggling to decide whether to move to Portugal or not, take some advice from the locals – and get packing! Algarve Daily News, the magazine for expats living on Portugal’s sunny south coast, has identified six great reasons why the British should choose a new life in their country. We think we can do even better than that, so we’ve taken their six and added a few of our own!

You could be a cattle rancher in Portugal, says National Park

Portugal’s only National Park wants new residents to come and look after its cattle, and make a new life in one of its most beautiful areas. Yeehaw, cowboy!

The Algarve celebrates 50 years of golf

Golf is 50 years old in the Algarve this year, making it a special time to visit. So if you’re planning a viewing trip there soon, why not squeeze in a round or two? Fifty years after the first golfer teed off in Portugal’s Algarve, this famous stretch of coastline is today one of the world’s most desirable golf destinations with a thriving international property market.