Well I’d love to say we’re more fluent in Portuguese than since I last wrote, but unfortunately our Portuguese course this week was postponed because the teacher she had to go back to the UK due to a family member being ill. The first of the three day course was really good though, so we’re looking forward to her being back and rescheduling.
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| Portuguese school with Pats coffee mug for the champs🏈🎉 |
We had a few meetings this week to move things along with the mimosa property. With those, we’re hoping to sign a purchase and sale agreement as well as pay a deposit within the next 2 weeks. Driving 2 hours up to the area of the property, and 2 hours back is starting to get old. So we've decided that for March 1st we'll try to find a place to rent closer to the property, seeing as things are moving forward with it.
We’ve discovered two new restaurants around Tomar that are now our favorites. Last weekend we joined Antony, Emma, Linda and Heiss to watch the Six Nations Rugby Championship. The place is owned by an Irish guy who worked in the UK for years perfecting his chef skills in an Indian Restaurant. The Indian food he makes is unbelievably good. But when it was pouring rain out Thursday night and went in we were so happy he had a beef casserole with mashed potatoes, peas, broccoli and gravy. Best comfort food meal I’ve had while in Portugal! Not very Indian, or traditional Portuguese but it’s nice to get a break from the meat, rice and fries plates that are typical to here.
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| Wine by the Cozy fireplace before mashed potatoes and beef casserole dinner! |
The other place we discovered this week is a Portuguese restaurant called In Portugal. It’s menu is mainly traditional Portuguese with things like Wild Boar Croquets, Pork Cheeks, and Stuffed goat. But it’s all delicious, and only 30 Euro which included dinner for 2, a bottle of wine and dessert!
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| In Portugal... |
We also heard about a bar which every Thursday night hosts live music. We went this Thursday to check it out, and had a really fun night out. The bar was packed of Portuguese people from 17 to 70 years old enjoying each other's company. The band was kind of hilarious, playing mostly hits of the 80s with a “piano player” who we realized was air playing probably about 50% of the time. Either way it was a great night out and we got some dancing in💃!
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| The 80s band |
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| Some serious twirling😂 |
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| Bailando Salsa |
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