It's been almost a year since I last wrote about the YouTube vloggers pursuing a simpler life, renovating land in rural Central Portugal....

As I was putting this design together, it struck me that it serves as a kind of pocket virtual tour around Portugal using the web-based...

My light obsession with cheap, rural property in Central Portugal continues to simmer quietly on the back burner. Symptoms include...

I have an unusual perspective when it comes to shopping for rural property in Portugal, in as much as I have never stepped foot on a...

I'm talking property here, of course. Land. If you wanted to escape the proverbial Rat Race, put on big rubber boots, and create a rural...

A look at ex-pat homesteaders who are vlogging their experiences in Central Portugal via YouTube. More or less off-grid in Castelo Branco.

I have worked at a local scene shop, the GNW or Great Northern Way Scene Shop, in some capacity for over a decade. Weekly staff meetings...

When I started this blog/website, the Pandemic had just started and I was only about four months into recovery. These two factors...

Since the start of the Pandemic and my transition to stay-at-home-dad, I have been devoting as much time as possible to graphic design...

This piece is, in my opinion, one of the most satisfying and pleasing images I have ever made. I named it "Idle in the Canyon" because it...

If there is one thing I have learned from watching various ex-pats' YouTube channels documenting their efforts to find the Simple Life in...

My fascination with Portugal in general and living a more self-sufficient life there in particular continues unabated. Check out my Video...

The link is in the header menu. Currently featuring videos from the YouTube channel, "Luke and Sarah's Off-Grid Life." Sarah and Luke...

225,000 € - 185 m² built/5,160 m² plot/207 m² main house (with deck) - constructed 2010 - 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom - garage/storage -...

*** This is an Open Article - new information and media may appear according to no set schedule *** My virtual travels around Central...

Moçarria, Santarém - 62,000 € - 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms - 208 m² built/2,360 m² plot - semi-restored in 1996. During these crazy times, I...

Bom dia, everyone and anyone. I'm coming to you whatever-the-blog-equivalent-is-of "live" from the living room of Casa de Hayes, in...

Proposed here is a method of dividing the Algarve into meaningful zones. The above map is my attempt to refine other zoning schemes by...

Thus far, every photographer I have featured on here has been found via the Creative Commons, and their photos made available there....

The new, experimental version of Google Earth has seized my attention and will not let it go. I was using it to zoom around the Algarve...