Well. We are officially eating our words, y’all.

We said for years we were not going to buy a car.

That being car-less was pretty cool. (It is.)

That walking everywhere was such a nice change. (It was.)

That Ubers were so affordable. (They are.)

And we didn’t buy one. For 2.5 years in Portugal we used public transportation - the metro, the train system, Ubers, sometimes even a bus!

But after our first year in the Algarve (where the metro doesn’t exist and the trains do exist but are limited), we realized that we had not even done a “drive-by” of all of the southern coast, much less fully explored all the amazing places down here near us.

➡️And when we realized that our travels and adventures were being limited by not having our own car, we changed our minds.

So, we bought a car.

And we love her!

🎙️Tune into this episode where we talk through how we came to the decision to buy a car after 2.5 years without one + how the process worked for us in Portugal.

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Shout out to Ricardo at Motors Group in Faro + Ged Heaney at GED Insurance for helping us with the insurance coverage.

Cheers, y’all!

Meredith + Mark

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