I have lived in the above house, since May 2021, and during my stay here I have thoroughly enjoyed the panoramic views and surrounding nature. In all honesty, I have never had a view from my toilet seat as beautiful as this one.
But now it's time to move on and start a new chapter.
This house is going to be sold and I won't be the one buying it.
After four and a half years in the Portugese mountains and ( later ) the countryside, I decided to move to the nearest and - more importantly - my favorite little city.
It's still very closeby ( 5km ), so I'm basically staying in the same area and it's surely going to be more convenient for me, in a bunch of ways.
I don't drive a car so moving to a little city instead of staying on a hill, at half an hour walking distance from a tiny village, will make me less dependent on others.
I will also have more diversity where to get my food from, can decide 'when' I buy things and am already looking forward to sitting in the several cafés and little restaurants and being more social, meeting more new people, overall.
This town is also a place that many of my friends and acquaintances visit regularly, so I will probably receive many messages - from next month onward - of them asking me if I'm available for a drink, snack, walk when they visit town.
Looking forward to that!
Long story short:
I'll be moving out, in three weeks, on February the 1st, and will receive the keys of my new apartment on the 20th, 9 days from now.
I'm so excited!
I just can't hide it...
This is gonna be my future view:
Kind of underwhelming but then again I have been spoilt for years now and nature is just around the corner. This will motivate me to actually go out ( even ) more, instead of just enjoying the view from my window and or terrace, as I'm used to doing here ;>)
Would you believe that this is actually the main street of this town haha! That might give you an idea of its size.
TO BE CONVINUED...