It’s a pretty original title, right? But the reason for that is that our blog is celebrating one year ? It doesn’t feel like we have been running this blog for one year already! It feels like we just bought the house and started this funny and amazing adventure.

But when we started going through all thousands of picture that we have taken we realised that it was almost a year ago since we bought our house ? We started the blog a couple of weeks before we even knew that we would buy our dream-house during our weekend trip to a beautiful Lisbon.

We really recommend that you visit Lisbon if you haven’t been there, the trip from Sweden is around 4 hours which is perfect for a weekend-trip and you can go around by foot in Lisbon, just enjoying the city and all the beautiful houses and architecture.

Or you can just grab a cab or a tuk-tuk pretty cheap ? We tried this tuk-tuk when we were in Lisbon the first time, we walked a bit too far away from the hotel and didn’t have the energy to walk back ? It might not be the most beautiful means of transportation ? but you will see a lot and it’s good for the environment as most of them run on electricity ?

When we started to work on this post we quickly realised what an amazing journey we had already done. Buying a house, getting a real-estate agent, lawyer, electricity, gas, water and making sure that we had all the necessary papers, numbers etc that we need to be able to buy a house and live in Portugal. When we think about all that we are truly overwhelmed and very happy that we come this far ❤

This picture is one of the pictures from the start of our first Portugal adventure.

Already at our first trip we fell in love with this country and we had not even seen our dream-home yet ❤ But check out this approach that Lisbon (and TAP) gave us ?So amazing and beautiful and so mighty to finally be there ❤

The bridge is called Ponte de 25de Abril, it’s so beautiful when you see it from the air during inflight but also very powerful if you see it from the ground ? If you have the luck to come in from the right path and the weather is clear you will see most parts of Lisbon when you are going to land, it’s so beautiful. You really land in the middle of the city. ?

Portugal really showed it’s beautiful side after we had checked into our nice city-hotel. Warm weather and beautiful colours. So during the next couple of days we just enjoyed all the beautiful things to see. After that it was finally time to check out some houses!

We had already researched the areas and decided on what houses and areas to look for a house in, and when we finally arrived in that area and saw this beautiful sight we were sold! ❤

The picture is taken at one of the beaches that is around 10 minutes from our house, sadly the houses we wanted to view was not what we wanted when saw them live ? but thanks to our real-estate agent that quickly understood what we were looking for showed us another house that she had found on her own. And the rest is history, we fell in love with both the house and the area directly. Then there was no choice for us ? We didn’t have to think long, this was just our house from now on.

Everything went so fast after that, from putting in an offer on the house to getting our sought-after keys to the house. Thanks to competent and helpful people (for example an awesome lawyer) around us we succeeded to complete most parts of it from Sweden.

A really mighty day! The day when we finally got our keys ❤

Ofcourse there is a big part of the journey left as we have decided to trade our planned summerhouse into a permanent home ? But oh my god how much we are looking forward to that journey too ❤ It’s been crazy, stressful and nervous during the historic part of this journey but most of all, it’s been CRAZY fun! ❤