Migration
Understanding the D7 Visa
The visa most people moving to Portugal end up choosing. Income thresholds, documents, the real timeline, and the mistakes we made.
Read the guide →Getting Your NIF in Portugal
What it is, why you need it before almost everything else, and how to get one, before and after you arrive.
Coming soonHow Healthcare Works When You Arrive
SNS registration, private insurance, finding a GP, and how the system actually treats you in the first year.
Coming soonSlow living
Seasonal Eating Through the Portuguese Year
What actually comes into season when, and how the rhythm of the year changed the way our family eats.
Coming soonThe Market Calendar
When the markets run, what to expect each month, and how to shop them like someone who lives here.
Coming soonFinding Real Food
Where the real food is, away from the supermarket, and how we learned to find it in a new country.
Coming soonHealth notes
What I Have Learned About Longevity
Not biohacking. The slow, unglamorous things that the longest-lived people here actually do.
Coming soonSlow Medicine
What it means to be treated by a system that is not in a hurry, and what that changed for us.
Coming soonThe Science of Real Food
Why the food here is different, what the research actually says, and what we changed at our table.
Coming soonRegions
Living in Coimbra
The university city we landed near. Cost, pace, schools, and why the maths worked for our family.
Coming soonThe Alentejo
The slowest, cheapest, most Portuguese part of the country. Who it suits and who it does not.
Coming soonThe Silver Coast
Surf towns, quieter beaches, mid cost, less English-friendly than the Algarve. The honest version.
Coming soonThe Algarve
Two prices, winter and summer. The expat hub. What it costs and what you trade for the sun.
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