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22 Of Our Favorite Things About Portugal

Our Favorite Things About Portugal, Where Coffee And Pastry Are Considered Pillars Of Society

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Apr 05, 2018
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Portugal is a country we’ve fallen in love with over the past few years.

What is it, specifically, that we find appealing about Portugal?

Expat friends in the country have helped us to pin down a few of our favorite things about Europe’s sunniest outpost…

  • The extremely cheerful, helpful people… the Portuguese are among the most charming folks you’ll ever know…portugese football fans with drums, flags and football shirts milling about before a match
  • The year-round mild weather… low humidity… short winter… no need for special clothing any time of year…
  • The views in the Algarve… breathtaking in every direction…beach at the algarve with cactus in the foreground and turquoise waters and rocks in the background
  • Clean air…
  • Clean beaches…beach in portugal blue flag clean at sunset
  • Cheap wine…
  • Fresh, cheap seafood…
  • Low-rise Lisbon… a capital city where you can see the sky…low rise lisbon neighborhood where you can see the blue sky above red tile roofs
  • The summer nightlife from Carvoeiro to Estoril and Cascais… you can shop in boutiques until 1 a.m. and come upon musicians entertaining in the streets until 2 or 3…
  • The pasteis de nata…a hand holding a small pastry in the background is the blue sea and a suspension bridge
  • The colors of Lisbon…
  • The Time Out market in Lisbon for the best street market food of your life… and so cheap…People eating and drinking at Time Out Market in lisbon.
  • The language itself… and the Portuguese accent…
  • The surf… watching the waves off Portugal’s coast you understand why men were tempted to build ships to sail them…surfer in portugal rides a big wave on a sunny day
  • The ceramic tiles…
  • The Pena Palace…a red palace on top of rocky green mountain, portugal
  • The white and blue of Ericeira…
  • Coffee for 60 cents and expresso on every corner. In Portugal, coffee shops are bakeries and the combination is considered one of the pillars of society…a cup of coffee and pastry on a table in front of a windmill by the sea
  • Well-planned grid cities. All cities and towns are walkable…
  • Uncrowded beaches… many easily reached by public transportation…
  • Personal space. Nowhere in Portugal is crowded (except the Algarve beaches popular among British tourists in season)… and the Portuguese respect personal space, both theirs and yours…beach in portugal iwth a person standing at the waters edge. there are footprints leading to the person and cliffs in the background
  • Dinner at 10 p.m. and later on Friday and Saturday and that’s normal…

Kathleen Peddicord

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Kathleen Peddicord

Kathleen Peddicord

Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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