After our first experience with Workaway at Quinta da Pena (“quinta” is the Portuguese for “site” or “farm”) and having spent a month at Quinta do Muro helping our Portuguese Family, it was time to leave for our second experience, this time in a small town called Benafim , in the middle of the Algarve region. We had scheduled with our next host we would stay the entire October/2018 there, helping him with his daily chores (basically…
After 9 hours and a half of a turbulent flight, with the right to fainting episodes and medical requests on board, the last step before we could say that we were officially on Portuguese grounds was still missing: go through immigration. Even so, Bê was already thrilled to see, during the landing, places she had not seen for eight years when she did an interchange in Portugal through Univates, a Brazilian University. The huge queue…
Hello people! So there were 3 reasons that led us to this decision. The first one is called “price”. We spent a lot of time researching on airfares to various countries on the five continents, because we did not know where we were going; just that we would go… hahaha Until one day we found a mega promotion of one-way tickets to Lisbon. We could not let it pass by, right?! Click here and see…
One question we are often asked is “How do you do with transportation?” In this article, we talk a little about airline tickets, tools and techniques that we use to choose the deal that best fits the assumptions of our trip, especially the fact that it is a low-cost trip. “And how do you find cheap airline tickets?” The answer to that question could well be as simple as “go to site X, do a…
If you want to travel to Europe, it’s very important to know about Schengen. But it’s okay if you don’t, since we didn’t know too before we traveled and even many Europeans have no clue about what it is. We never heard about it and, by pure luck, before we traveled, a friend asked us how long we were planing to stay in each country and we answered we didn’t know, but, according to this…
Welcome! We created this site because, just like us, before traveling, many people are curious to know more about how it feels like to travel the world. Here we will answer any questions about our journey, planning, places and also give some advice we judge useful for the future traveler. We will share with you our adventures, experiences, perceptions, anguishes, fears, doubts and happiness we went through during these 8 months of the journey. We…