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Gottbean New member

Member since 29 December 2020

GottbeanNew member15 January 2021 16:28:15

My husband and I are planning our first trip to Portugal to scout it out for moving there eventually. Since we are so new at this, we would love to connect with anyone there to really get a sense of what it's like! We are looking at 10 days in September or October 2021.聽 Is there a Meet up or places that we can go to meet other Expats?聽 Our focus will be Algarve but we will probably on in the central part as well
I currently work in the beverage industry (wine & spirits) My husband is a non force Chiropractor so we want to meet people in these professions as well!

Thanks for any information!!

JohnnyPT Portugal Expert

Member since 23 May 2020

JohnnyPTPortugal Expert16 January 2021 00:35:34

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Hi, Welcome to this forum聽

Answering to your questions:

Meetup
Most of these groups are temporarily suspended due to covid19...
Let's hope everything is (almost) normal after summer.

/forum/viewtopic.php?id=909130

Beverage industry

ViniPortugal is the Association of the Portuguese Wine Industry. It is the managing entity for the brand Wines of Portugal.

It groups leading associations and professional organisations representing the trade (ACIBEV e ANCEVE), production (FENAVI and FEVIPOR), cooperative wineries (FENADEGAS), distillers (AND), farmers (CAP) and demarcated regions (ANDOVI).

Producers:

Trade:

ACIBEV
Beverage industry (wine & spirits) producers association in Portugal

ANCEVE

Suggestion:
You can visit the following Wine companies and Port wine houses in Portugal. These companies were founded by english families and they remain in the same families to this day.

Symington, since 1882

Taylor/Fladgate/Yeatman, since 1692

Chiropractic / quiropratica

Portuguese Chiropractic Association

Doutor Max Jacobs: american chiropractor working in Portugal

(...)

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Additional informations:

You can also use the magnifying glass in the top right corner of the screen to search for themes.

I also suggest you to visit this Youtube channel, particularly videos about the Douro and Alentejo regions, because they also talk about Portuguese wines. This is done by a young Danish couple living in Portugal. Their videos are well done and it's an interesting and fun viewpoint of these expats about Portugal.

Portugal Expats viewpoints:
/forum/viewtopic.php?id=895906

Forbes&InternationalLiving reports for US citizens:
/forum/viewtopic.php?id=903613
I know this is not your case. You are not retired...it's just additional informations

Best regards

Gottbean New member

Member since 29 December 2020

GottbeanNew member16 January 2021 02:06:15

Wow such great information! We can retire with our income but we love what we do so we want to keep it up
Thank you so much for all this information and the links!
Very helpful 馃槉馃

mschmit1661 New member

Member since 21 September 2020

mschmit1661New member16 January 2021 08:29:41

Hi,

We are Americans retired and living in the Algarve at Ferragudo...across the river from Portimao. We have explored the Algarve fairly extensively and would be happy to show you around. Let us know if you are interested.

Regards,
Mark and Erin Schmit

Gottbean New member

Member since 29 December 2020

GottbeanNew member16 January 2021 13:22:32

Thank you for the offer! We will contact you when we know our travel dates

mschmit1661 New member

Member since 21 September 2020

mschmit1661New member17 January 2021 08:09:59

Sounds good. Here is my direct email: ***

Let us know if you have any questions while you are planning...we will see what we can do from this end.

Mark & Erin

stumpy Laos Expert

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stumpyLaos Expert17 January 2021 16:55:28

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@mschmit1661

For personal safety do not post contact details here on the open forum. Please use the message system for this.

Caroma20 Member

Member since 26 December 2020

Caroma20Member18 January 2021 11:11:20

Hi Gottbean,

My wife and I moved partly to Portugal from Goa and absolutely love it. We have been living in Porto since 2011 but have now bought a farm in Serpa, Alentejo. If you would like to try out something on our land, please let us know. We have lots of space and open to ideas.

Wishing you all the very best, Cheers !

Carmelino

Gottbean New member

Member since 29 December 2020

GottbeanNew member19 January 2021 14:01:46

Thank You!

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