It's cheap. First class train tickets for a trip half way down the country for us all were under €100! Really nice food is also cheap.
They bend over backwards to make kids welcome, including there mess, noise and fussy eating habits, grumpy screaming, sandy kids seem to be made just as welcome as clean cute well behaved ones!
It's beautiful, do a google image search!
It's warm.
The pace of life seems pretty relaxed, clearly if you are trying to get work done this is frustrating, but over all it's nice to be chilled and embrace the three hour lunch/siesta.
Some things I'm struggling with:
Portuguese is really hard, and frankly, unlike my husband, I'm naturally very bad at languages anyway - I do try hard.
The driving, they hardly signal at all and park everywhere, I saw a car parked on a roundabout with one wheel on the pavement! You have to make damn sure they are planning to stop at a crossing before you cross.
The smoking, you can smoke inside lots of places and bothers my daughter a lot.
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