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		<title>Holidays in Portugal – Aldeia da Pedralva</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s sometimes hard to convince friends that just because we live in a holiday destination it doesn’t mean we are on holiday all the time (it’s Lou here, by the way). We still have to work, pay bills, go to the supermarket and complete all those household chores which are a part of daily life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling Around the Algarve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Ben) I must start today’s post with a humble apology. This blog’s been a little neglected of late, due to a combination of hosting guests, working to save up for our impending tax bill, and our decision to move house in the near future. I’ll go into more detail on the latter in a future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property in Portugal – Could it be the Right Time to Buy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our time living here we have seen first-hand that property in Portugal can be a tricky subject. The apartment block where we live has, like many developments across the Algarve, suffered from the economic crisis. Of the apartments on our road, only two or three are occupied fulltime. Others are owned as holiday rentals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Delightful Discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We headed further west along the Algarve coast this weekend, for a minibreak in the lovely town of Lagos. Lagos is a fabulous town to explore, with cove beaches, a marina and a huge variety of shops, bars and restaurants. While further along the coast, we took the opportunity to revisit one of our favourite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turning tax into charitable donations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After getting over the shock of the size of our latest Portuguese tax bill, I was excited to read in the Portugal News LINK recently that it is possible to pay less tax in Portugal. The concept is a simple one – you complete your annual tax return and tick a box stating that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Life in Portugal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.movingtoportugal.org/?p=1669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago my mother asked if Ben and I would house-sit for her and take care of her pets while she spent ten days in England. We agreed without a moment’s thought, eager to sample Portuguese country living. We live in a modern apartment where we are very happy, but had always wondered what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Speak Portuguese – Lou’s Ten Portuguese Language Cheats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.movingtoportugal.org/?p=1640</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life in Portugal can be tricky enough when you’re trying to negotiate the endless paperwork or identify strange looking cuts of meat in the butcher’s, let alone when you try and work out how to speak Portuguese. The difficulty with learning Portuguese is that what you say and hear doesn’t seem to correspond much with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ben’s Portugal Blog Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been quite a weekend for us here in Portugal. It started on Friday with a visit to our accountant. This is an annual meeting, which reveals the provisional figure for our tax bill. Suffice to say the news wasn’t good. We have a gargantuan bill to pay in the summer and sadly, due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Five Algarve Beaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The climate in Portugal at this time of year is unpredictable – there was even a mini tornado in the local town of Cabanas last week that damaged boardwalk sunshades and sent tables flying. Last week’s rain and strong winds have left me yearning for the sunshine so that we can get back out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Life in Portugal – Rainy Days and Mondays</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in Portugal doesn’t always involve sitting on the beach and drinking cocktails, although of course I do try to do that as often as possible (it’s Lou here today, by the way). This week, with high winds and torrential rain, we have hibernated indoors with the heating on full blast. The miserable weather has [...]]]></description>
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