The house is set on the routes of two pilgrim routes.
The Camino Português to Santiago de Compostela and the path to Fátima.
Our aim is to welcome pilgrims walking these routes, offering bed and breakfast and a place to rest. This is the journal of that house, and the life slowly building around it.
Two years ago we bought an old house in central Portugal with a vision for what it could become. Two years, plenty of unexpected costs, storms, building work and a lot of patience later, we’re finally starting to see that vision take shape.
Lying beside a cairn on Lundy, I watch aeroplanes and migrating birds crossing the October sky and start wondering where they are all heading. A week later, I’m heading south too, travelling by ferry and car to Portugal — although, as it turns out, a bird would be considerably faster.
I think Teresa rather enjoys finding me new places to swim in Portugal. As a blogger, I feel I should write about them properly so
A house on the Camino Português near Tomar, Portugal — on the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela and connected to the Knights Templar history of Lundy.
A tale of Earthquakes, looks at the possible link between Earthquake’ and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, exploring history and a shared Atlantic connection
Storm Kristin in Portugal.
This year, our trip to Portugal coincided with the olive harvest. All around the villages, you could see and hear people gathering their olives. We
Swimming in a river beach in Central Portugal, part of a series of Portugese swims.