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Off-grid and Entertaining in Portugal

Off-grid and ignorant in Portugal

A foreign correspondent, a diplomat and a life-changing decision.

Nov 3, 2020 • Alastair Leithead

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On sting jets, bomb cyclones and a jet stream of chaos

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Backing the Booze

Goodbye dry...and welcoming back wet

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The Pleasure of Bleisure

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Happy Holidays!

Having our cakes and eating them...

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Elephants to Alentejo

Portugal’s latest retirees coming here for the weather are large and grey

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Surviving the silly season(s)

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Off-grid and Entertaining in Portugal

Off-grid and Entertaining in Portugal

Despatches from a former BBC foreign correspondent now running an off-grid eco-luxe lodge on the Alentejo coast

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