This post is an update of our recent workation in Portugal including the planning, what it cost and how it went. Planning Why/When Firstly, I’ll cover off why and when we decided to travel. When we were moving from Ireland to Canada last summer, I wanted to have a trip planned back to Ireland within … Read more
As you may have read, we took a mini-retirement where both my husband and myself would be off from Jan 1 – Mar 20 and without pay until the end of April. We spent 7 weeks in Portugal, to see if the cost of living there would be as cheap as we had read based … Read more
The main purpose of the mini-retirement was to recuperate from sleep deprivation more cheaply than at home. Unexpectedly, we actually realised a number of other things about our future early retirement goals. This post covers all the things we learned from our mini-retirement. Our early retirement plan We were leaning towards the option of reaching … Read more
If you’ve had a read of how we managed our mini retirement in Portugal and are thinking of taking one yourself then here are some tips on what we did to plan for ours. When How long to save up First, you will need to figure out how much your mini retirement will cost and … Read more
As you may have seen in previous posts, I alluded to the fact that my family would be in Portugal for 2 months trailing a mini-retirement. This post goes into why we did it, how we’re managing it from a financial perspective and how it’s going so far. What is a mini-retirement and why do … Read more