Us

We are Jay and Jacqui both in our 40s although for one of us, 50 is but a few weeks away!!!

We own a Pub and our own home, we have two grown up children, one sort of lives at home while the other has just "temporarily" moved back home.

We have created this blog to follow our plans to leave dear old Blighty, we've had enough of; (in no particular order) the lousy weather, high taxes and Government installed hurdles that prevent an ordinary family improve their lot in life. The final straw has been seeing the Government give OUR hard earned cash to undeserving bankers.

So what next?

Online research has identified Portugal as our possible next home, to this end we plan to spend four weeks looking around central Portugal in June.

What is it we want?

A simpler life, more or less self sufficient, peace and quiet and weather that allows us to ride our motorbike!When do we want it?

2010 or sooner if we manage to sell our house. The pub, which has a very efficient manager will, we hope, continue to provide us with a small income.

The next step.

We need to get a valuation on our home, renew our passports, find some holiday accommodation and start planning for our dream!