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Off-grid and Entertaining in Portugal

Despatches from a former BBC foreign correspondent now running an off-grid eco-luxe lodge on the Alentejo coast

Newsletter · By Alastair Leithead · English · Official site

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    They say that the definition of being a grown-up is when you find out that there’s no such thing as grown-ups.But there are some real grown-ups – wise grown-ups – who give good advice, especially when it comes to health and safety, and especially when you move to the countryside and have no idea what you are doing (and they do).It’s been the story of my life for the last six years, since deciding to move off the grid into rural Alentejo, and by necessity of having to do everything myself because

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