Move To Portugal: Simple living and moving abroad

Levels of Coverage for Travel Insurance

The following is a guest post; Travel insurance should be taken out prior to any trip. Direct travel insurance is designed to cover a variety of areas which can often be specialized depending upon the trip and what you will be doing while away. There are three basic types of travel insurance: these are single trip, [...]

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Summer To Do

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I’ve written a long list of household jobs that I want to complete before the summer is out and I’m starting with the freezer – as you can see it’s badly in need of defrosting! My list includes spring cleaning and household maintenance items, and if we complete everything on the list it will put [...]

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Focus

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Staying focused on this… leads to this…. leads to living here…hopefully! I’m feeling very under the weather today but wanted to blog, so I’m saying it with pictures. Further budget posts to follow

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May 2012 Mini Goals

2012 goals

As we focus on reducing the mortgage as much as possible before we move to Portugal, I keep myself motivated and moving forward by setting monthly mini goals……some months I’ll set just a few, other months, a lot. I’ll be honest and admit that I’ve not given a thought to any personal mini goals for May. My [...]

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Mortgage Freedom: May 2012 Report

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Our goal is to achieve Financial Freedom by December 2020; being mortgage free (as soon as possible), is part of that goal and every month I track our progress. May 1st 2012 Mortgage Stats: Original Mortgage: £138,485 (April 2006) Original term: 300 months (March 2031) Outstanding Balance: £95,527.36 Reduction from last month: 2,220.47 Paid off to [...]