Wandering Works for Us

Date: 10 October 2023

Title: Pão Por Deus and the Fall Holidays in Portugal

Fall is such a beautiful time in Portugal, but the holidays are a little different. We talk about the tradition of Pão por Deus instead of "Halloween" and the festival of São Martinho and chestnuts.

Key Topics

• [00:37] We love Spooky Season but we’ve been fooled here
• [3:47] Pão Por Deus
• [10:07] All Souls Day
• [16:25] São Martinho Day
• [20:40] Festas thank you dinner
• [23:20] What’s up next

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Special thanks to all of our family and friends that have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment and learning the ropes of our new country.

Special shout outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast

Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

Date: 27 October 2023

Title: Summer Festas

In this episode, we tell you all about our neighborhood festas and how four days of party are…well, A LOT.

• [00:45] our latest adventures in Florence and Paris
• [02:00] What is festas
• [06:15] Festas is not a fair
• [09:45] Potato peeling with the locals
• [15:35] Dinner and the party
• [21:00] What’s coming up next

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• Blogpost for this episode

Special thanks to all of our family and friends that have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment and learning the ropes of our new country.

Special shout outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast

Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

Date: 6 October 2023

Title: S1E6 A Week in the Algarve

In this episode, we tell all of our adventures in the Algarve this summer. A week is not long enough to see it all, but we hit the highlights.

• Introduction and bike rally in Faro
• [4:15] Cork Forests
• [6:30] Old Town Walled city gates
• [7:45] Beth tells you all about the storks
• [10:10] Faro Cathedral
• [17:00] Ria Formosa
• [20:20] Benagil Caves
• [26:45] Fuzeta and the beach
• [30:30] Tavira
• [35:40] Visiting with Friends
• [40:45] Shoutouts!

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Special thanks to all of our family and friends that have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment and learning the ropes of our new country.

Shout out to all of our listeners and people who have recommended the listen. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Thank you, Knock Caldwell for your “gardyloo” answer. You are the best tour guide ever!

Special shout outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast
• Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

Date: 27 Sept 2023

Title: S1E5: Our Trip to Edinburgh

In this episode, we give the highlights of our trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, in June. It was our first time out of Portugal since we moved, and there were many things we wanted to explore. We did a lot in three days!!

This episode is LONG, but like I said, we did a lot in 3 days.

• First day starts at 00:52
• Grass Market, Royal Mile, Victoria Street, St. Giles Cathedral
• The second day starts at 14:49
• Harry Potter Tour, Greyfriars Bobby, National Museum of Scotland, Mary King’s Close, White Hart Inn
• The third day starts at 26:26
• Princes Street Gardens, Calton Hill, Royal Cafe, the joy of Alan and Knocke!

To follow all of our antics and adventures, please visit our social media pages and our website at wwforus.com! You can send us a message at any of these places, and feel free to email us at [email protected]

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Special thanks to all of our family and friends who have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment, and learning the ropes of our new country.

Special shout-outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life, that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast
• Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

17 Sept 2023

Today we tell the story of Ines and Pedro, two people who loved each other so much that even death could not separate them.

Check out our blogpost here so that you can see all the pictures of the coffins!

Special thanks to all of our family and friends that have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment and learning the ropes of our new country.

To follow all of our antics and adventures, please visit our social media pages and our website at wwforus.com! You can send us a message at any of these places and feel free to email us at [email protected]

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• Website

Special shout outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast
• Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

Wandering Works for Us Podcast

8 Sept 2023

S1E3: Our Typical week living in a small village in Portugal

In this episode, we talk about what it is like living in a small village in Portugal. We discuss our day to day, our challenges, and what we really love about living here.

You can see the great pics and check out the blog posts at wwforus.com

This particular blog post is found Here

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The full story of how we made the move!

"So, a year ago, I basically said to Shelley “want to move to Europe and specifically Portugal?”

We had been together for about a year. 

And this is how incredible she is - she said “sure!” - with questions of course. She had never even been to Portugal, but I had been researching immigration to Portugal for several months. 

So, We scheduled a trip in August for her to see Portugal and after that trip she said yes!"

Shelley said yes to a lot more than that, but for now here is our 7 month journey to our whole new life!

If you have any questions about our journey or in general, hit us up on Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram! you can also email us at [email protected] or visit our website at wwforus.com

It's been 19 weeks since we arrived in Portugal with just a few pieces of luggage and our two dogs. Find out what we have been up to since then and how our lives have changed.

Show notes:

Wandering Works for Us Podcast

8 Aug 2023

S1E1: 19 Weeks Living in Portugal

In this episode, we explain what we have been up to for the past 19 weeks since we moved to PORTUGAL!

Buying all new things, navigating buying a car, buying groceries, and meeting new people and all of the 

The sound on the podcast may be a little low. This is our very first podcast so we have a few kinks to work out. Thanks for listening!

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• [1:00] Introduction and what we have liked about being here so far
• [2:30] Where we are and setting up house, buying a car, Ikea
• [5:45] Meeting our friends and getting help
• [8:20] Festas! (we will talk more about this later)
• [11:45] time in Portugal (it moves a little differently) how long it takes for appts, times for meals, living in the moment
• [17:00] other places located around us that we go to (beaches and cities). No private beaches! 
• [19:15] how to find us and contact us (also see below!)

Special thanks to all of our family and friends that have helped with our move, helped with setting up our new apartment and learning the ropes of our new country. Special shout out to the Coffee Bitches and their bitches, Julie, Carrie, Eli, Laurie, Meg, Geoff, Joelen, Ansley and David. You guys ROCK!!

Special shout outs to AL and Leanne of A Sideways Life that has given us so much help and support for the move. To Gal and Mayaan at Smoozitive with their love and support. Please check out their podcasts on Apple Podcasts 

• A Sideways Life website and podcast
• Smoozitive website (if you are moving abroad, these women are experts and will help you out!)

To follow all of our antics and adventures, please visit our social media pages and our website at wwforus.com! You can send us a message at any of these places and feel free to email us at [email protected]

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