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Hey guys, Zuheros was amazing. We both fell in love with it. There is just something about white-washed villages that we adore. I (Alison) previously suggested that we move to somewhere in Greece, before we relocated to Spain. 🤷🏼‍♀️ There is a water shortage in so many places, but others have it in abundance, but don't seem to want to share...🤔 (Not going to get into Spanish politics). Yes, the lake at the end was a reservoir. To be fair, even there, you could see that the water level was a lot lower than it could have been, but still stunning. Anywhoozle, we're now off to frolic in the Mediterranean sea..! 😬 Much love 💜🤟

Hey guys, Knowing what is the right thing to do for the old boy (Sebastian obviously, not Darren 🤣) is becoming an increasingly grey area, but fingers crossed, we're still on the right side of wrong, if you get what I mean. Alte and the waterfall were lovely, so close together, the waterfall was really refreshing. We could have done with going again when we had finished walking around the village, although maybe without the extra steps... 🤣 Vila Nova de Milfontes had some really cute houses that we loved, but also a lot of modern ones, with the rooves being so new looking, it was hard to tell them apart at times. Aaah shit cake. 🤣 It just wasn't chocolatey enough for me, but Darren loves it. We haven't seen it since we've been back in Spain. Sadly we haven't seen our beloved Carrot and Ginger Hummus that Portuguese Lidls sell either. 😭 As for the transition, steal away. 🤪 Much love 💜🤟

Hi..! We will definitely be back in your region again. We adored Zuheros. One of the prettiest places that we have been. Thanks so much for the recommendations. We have added them on to our list of places for the future, after another visit to Zuheros. 🤣🤣 Thanks you for watching and commenting..! Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

Hi Mark, We normally do say where we are, although not always the nearest town. We didn't actually go into Calasparra this time round. We're hoping to next time. Thanks for watching and for your comment. 💜🤟

Hi Paulette, Thanks for watching and commenting. 😘💜🤟

We feel the same Gareth. It's such a shame. Thanks for watching and commenting. 💜🤟

Aaaw Jan..! We're so glad that our video brought back so many memories of happy times and that living in Spain not only made your mum's life happier, but longer too. We're sorry that your lives changing meant that you had to return to the UK. Fingers crossed for you that one day you can move back again and enjoy it further. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

Hey guys, sorry life has been hectic for you again..! We thought it was hot in Portugal..! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yesterday topped out at 41°c in Perse, parked in the shade, with 5 electric fans running, cool mats for the kids and constantly wetting my hair for me. Darren is much more graceful when he's hot. I just don't care. 🤣🤣 Evora was great and easy to get into. The views were awesome from the top of the cathedral. We thought the folly ruins were actually more interesting to look at than the palace, but hey. 🤣 Pacha Mama commune was just amazing. We love seeing different people's way of life. That could definitely work for us, especially if it serves apple and cinnamon pizza. I could have even my own body weight in the stuff. 😍 Wishing you calmer lives soon and safe travels. 😘 Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

@comealongdear There wasn't actually as much celebrating as we had expected. We're currently in a relatively small coastal town of Moncofa and apart from the initial yells, cheers, vuvuzelas and whistles as the goals were scored and at the end, the rest was a bit of an anticlimax. I think all the hard-line party goers were expected in Benidorm. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣💜🤟

@findingxanadulife hi guys, thank you, it's been okay, we had some madly rushed filming towards the end of our Germany trip (we're back now!) in order to stack up enough videos for when we're at work for 5 weeks, then once we returned we saw family and then had a bit of a scare with Stephen 😬 I think we're okay now, Darren messaged to ask so he'll fill you in on the details, but it definitely turned things upside down for a bit and made us think about the future. However, more importantly...apple and cinnamon pizza! 😍 Where can we get one and when is the question! 41 degrees, holy crap...it sounds like you're well stocked up with fans though and yes use water as much as possible. Good luck with it, Stephen would be driving to the coldest place possible if we were in that! ❤️🤟

@findingxanadulife sounds like you were in the right place for it, we did watch the match but we were parked in a layby away from all civilisation which was absolutely the best place to be, especially with England losing 😬🙈😂

Germany looked lovely, so we'll look forward to the next few videos then. Glad to hear that Stephen is getting sorted. I'm guessing Jam Tarts won't make him feel better this time. 🫤 Apple and Cinnamon pizza...the only place we know of is Pacha Mama. We suggest you head there now...although it might be a bit toasty there. 🤣 We moved further north and it's now 30-32°c which thankfully everyone can cope with. We can't go back to Potríes this week though as it's still very high 30°s. We're hoping for an unseasonably cool August. 🤣🤣 Much love and stay safe. 💜🤟

Sounds like a great idea. A lot of homes that are passed down from generation to generation, end up derelict because of the inheritance tax and that any debt owed by the person who dies, must also be taken on with any other inheritance. For some people, it just isn't worth inheriting, so the houses are left to rot, because no-one can legally do anything with them. It's such a shame. 😔 Thanks for your comment. 😘💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife 🤟🤟

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching. 💜🤟

Tienes toda la razón Ana. Como siempre.🤣😘💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife no tanto, 🤭 gracias🙂

@ anacasanova7350 ¿cómo sabes toda esta información ...?!? 🤯 (No sobre los suplementos de hierro🤣) 😘💜🤟

Definitely get exploring..! The Valencian community has some stunning locations. Enjoy your break..! 💜🤟

Hi Antonio, Thank-you so much for your kind comment. Unfortunately the UA-cam algorithm seems to fail us each week. We have a good "view duration" and a good "click-through rate" each week, yet UA-cam stops sharing the videos to people for some reason. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We have no idea why. Anyway, we'll keep doing what we do and hopefully, eventually UA-cam will decide it's ok for more people to see them. We would definitely recommend a visit though. The area is blissful. When you go, we'd love to know if you thought we did the area justice. 😉 Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife I agree with Antonio. As a Spaniard, I do believe you´re constantly producing some of the very best van-related content about Spain, showing me places I didnt´t even know myself. Great video quality and lovely couple´s chemistry. There are so many van channels in Spain getting thousands upon thousands of views with pretty poor content, so I don´t understand if you killed UA-cam´s dog. Maybe it´s worth getting a UA-cam´s algorithm tutorial or something. Whatever it is, well done you guys.

@1650million Wow, thank-you so much ☺️ What area of Spain are you from..? Before we go any further let us say, that no matter what our cats may tell our dogs, we don't agree with that type of dog discipline. If UA-cam's dog was naughty and has been punished, we didn't do it. No animals were harmed in the making of any of our videos. 🤣🤣🤣 Honestly, we don't get it. Darren is a bit excessive at times (as he admits himself) and if a subject interests him, he researches the ins and outs of a gnats @rse out of it. He's watched SO many tutorials, it's beyond belief. With the view durations that we get and the click through rates, some of our videos should have been shared through the stratosphere, yet UA-cam will just suddenly stop sharing them. It doesn't help that it often shows them as 'up next' suggestions to people that have watched the most random videos. Our favourite so far was "Bob Hopkins best movie clips". As much as we love Bob Hopkins, we don't feel that we are up to the standard of his best bits, so probably shouldn't have been suggested. We will still plug away and see what happens. Again thank-you so much for watching and your kind comment. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife I told you 'this should and would' gets lots of views ' many many more I hope I am spreading the word, a lot of work goes into these believe me I have tried myself and just to walk,talk, interact , impart information takes some doing, I tried myself and failed, stay safe and keep the content coming

@antoniocrawley It is definitely a lot of work. Multi-tasking like that is traumatic in itself and Darren's editing even more so. He loves to make sure that each piece of music, matches the beat to the clip changes and often our walking speed too. It's way too much brain power for me. You'll soon know if Darren is ever ill and I have to take over. 🤪 On a serious note though, we're sorry you decided that making videos wasn't for you. What sort of videos did you make..?? PS Thanks for also spreading the word. It's very much appreciated 💜🤟

We thought so too Simon. 😍💜🤟

It was lovely. We didn't understand the random tokens that had been left though. Drivers 'L' plates, hair bands, even dog poo bags.. Very unusual. 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife That's strange, usually their trails are pretty clean.

People had deliberately left items behind, like the cave was a shrine or something, but the items were mostly not religious. It was weird. 😘💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife Oh, I see is like a mystic place for rituals. Makes sense being a cave...

@Katubemeow It seems to happen quite often here in Spain. Candles and flowers we understand, but not quite sure what the people who left 💩 bags tied to the fence were hoping for in return. 🤣🤣🤣💜🤟

It was lovely. Thanks for watching and for your comment. 💜🤟

Thank-you Paulette. We've been very lucky with finding such beauty. 😍💜🤟

Thank-you Don. That's the downside of our babies aging. Apart from Spud who is only 8, the other 3 are all teenagers and time just won't stop passing. 😢💜🤟

Haha Towah..! You'll never see ⚽ on our channel, we don't follow it and don't support any teams. We hope to be able to see Hamburg eventually, but we definitely enjoyed this week's visits. So glad that you could join us. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

Thanks Suzie. We particularly loved Zuheros. 😍 Wait until you see next week's venue...😍💜🤟

Hi Wanda, What a lovely comment. We're glad to take you along with us. We are very lucky to be able to visit those places. Thank-you so much for watching and for your comment. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

We love Spain too Wanda. Where abouts are you from..?!? 💜🤟

You are most welcome Wanda, we're glad you loved the video and the places we visited.. Thank-you so much. 💜🤟

Muchísimas gracias Ana. 😘💜🤟

Thank-you..! We are spoiled with some of the places that we find. Zuheros was a particular favourite. Utterly stunning village. Hopefully you won't be disappointed with next week. #Nospoilershere 🤪 Thanks for watching, much love 💜🤟

Muchas gracias, este es definitivamente uno que visitaremos cuando regresemos a la región.🤟♥️

Hola, tienes razón, definitivamente ha sido un comienzo más cálido para el verano de este año. Nuestra piscina municipal de la aldea abrió 3 semanas antes para ayudar a nuestros vecinos a lidiar con ella.Gracias por la sugerencia de "imágenes religiosas", descripción perfecta, tendremos que recordarla. Muchas gracias por mirar y por tu comentario. Mucho amor Alison y Darren 💜🤟

Estoy segura que si veis la momia de Tutankamón, la haríais reverencias. 😂😂❤

@anacasanova7350 Yo (Alison) lo he visto ana, mientras él estaba acostado en su tumba original ... Estaba hipnotizado. Solo la momia, yo y otras 2 personas. Fue increíblemente conmovedor para mí. Pasé aún más tiempo mirando su máscara fúnebre dorada en el museo. 🤪🤣🤣💜🤟

That's really interesting and we presume you have lived there for a very long time. We were shown some photos of the area dated 1997 and the town looked completely different and a fraction of the size. Maybe the photos had the wrong date on them? Thanks for watching and your comment, much love Darren & Alison 🤟♥️

They were amazing Roger. We were very spoiled. 💜🤟

Hi Marcela, We adored Portugal and Darren really loved the chocolate salami cake..! We had to leave early, but we will definitely be back once we have been to Turkey. We hope you will continue to join us on our adventures as we journey further around the world. Thanks for watching. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

Thank-you Matthew. Us too. 🫤💜🤟

Thanks Matthew. That would indeed be a great option for us. Darren always has a head so full of creative ideas, that it sometimes takes over from normal function. 🤣 Thanks for watching as always. 💜🤟

Bart really loves the feeling of movement. Once he got used to the difference of the motorhome, from the car, he sleeps soundly when we travel. To be fair, he's a happy lad and just loves being wherever we are and getting loads of fuss. As for Seb, we're currently waiting for some test results. 🫤 The waterfall was exactly what we needed. We could have done with going again at the end of the day.🤣 We never considered Portugal not participating in WWII, but that makes sense. A lot of the damage done in Spain seems to have been from the Civil War. Thanks for watching as always. 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife Thank you🤘

Hi Sarah, We do miss Potries a lot, especially our friends and neighbours, but have really enjoyed seeing all the new places and different cultures/lifestyles in different areas, even within the same country. We were blown away by the welcome we received when we got back 10 days ago. Even people that we had previously seen around the village and waved to, but not really had full on conversations with, made a point of stopping to talk and welcomed us back. It was also lovely that we managed to get back in time to celebrate the San Juan fiesta in the village on the 23rd. It's one of the fiesta where one complete street is used to set up lots of tables and chairs and the villagers all congregate and have food together. Then watch a fire burn and have the traditional fireworks, to welcome the warmth of summer. It was lovely to be able to be part of that again after so long. Our previous home looks amazing. The people we sold it to have put flowers on all the windowsills and it's lovely. Our neighbours agree that the couple we sold to are equally lovely and have integrated into the village completely, which was exactly what we wanted. They have asked us if we want to visit and see what they have done inside, but we don't want to do that. It would feel weird. We are however parking Perse in the carpark one street away from where we lived and have fallen back into several of our old routines. We always used meet friends with their dogs and ours, to spend time in an evening playing in the carpark. Now they just shout through the open motorhome door when we arrive and we don't have to walk so far. 🤣🤣 It does kind of feel like we haven't been away. It will be hard to leave again, especially our close friends, knowing we won't physically be able to see them for even longer this time, but we really have fallen in love with travelling and aren't ready to stop yet. Fingers crossed, you'll feel the same. 🤞😘 Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

So happy for you both and you received such a welcome - quite the celebrities unintentionally ! You both do an amazing job at showing us all that life is for living - so inquisitive and endearing . I really don’t blame you and whatever you decide to do eventually and wherever you decide to live you will make it as nice as Your home in Portries . I love all the places you have been and of course Portugal but my heart still lies in Spain. We will start to explore soon but this year as we have decided to stay in the Uk and travel with our two dogs to explore places we haven’t been before giving up work and moving somewhere! Looking forward to your next episode .x

Hi Towah, We're glad that you liked half of the video at least. 😬 Thanks for the well wishes for Sebastian. In himself he is happy, which is the main thing. 😍💜🤟

Hola Ana, Hemos encontrado españoles amables y cariñosos en todas partes. No todos, pero mucho. Siempre hemos descubierto que si eres amable, cariñoso y cortés, la gente suele ser agradable. Desafortunadamente, muchos turistas, especialmente del Reino Unido, tratan a los locales de cualquier nacionalidad de manera muy diferente. Algunos simplemente asumen automáticamente que todos hablan inglés y se ponen malhumorados si no lo hacen. Si fuera un local, tampoco estaría tan contento de conocer a esas personas.🤷🏼‍♀️💜🤟

Will do. We were hoping to have the results of the biopsies by Friday, but it's now Monday...🤷🏼‍♀️ Darren says our vet shouldn't play poker, so we think we know the outcome, but hope we're wrong. 🤞 Much love and tummy tickles for Watson. 😍💜🤟

On face value, Portuguese do seem to be more friendly as soon as you meet them. For some Spaniards, it takes them a little while to drop their walls and become friends with new people. Portuguese however, are most definitely much more considerate when driving. They are more likely to let people pull out of junctions in front of them and give way when priority is equal. Spanish drivers have always seemed to be in a rush to get everywhere and much more unlikely to encourage people to join traffic in front of them. 🤣 Thanks for your comment..! Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife ah ok, I’d heard that it was terrible to drive in Portugal so that’s interesting to know… we’re thinking to check out both countries as a place to live permanently, But it does feel there are less coastal areas (near large towns/cities) to choose from in Portugal. I’m swayed towards Spain because it’s bigger and because I’m currently learning Spanish and felt it would be the easier language of the two. We also want warmth not just in the height of summer (Yes +10 is warmth when you live in a place that hits -25 in winter). In addition to Spain being connected to other countries for different adventures. However, my partner likes the look of portugal too, but after much much research though we are heading to the Valencia region (Gandia as I mentioned to you in a previous post) as it seems to tick all the boxes. But your videos of Portugal have definitely had us thinking again haha! I love all your videos though! Can’t say I’m not nervous to start a new, I’m British and my partner is Swedish and I’ve lived in Sweden for years, so I’m not new to moving/living in a different country but my current lack of Spanish worries me. I know Swedish now but did have the comfort to slip to English as I was learning because there second language is English, but I don’t think that is an option in Spain so we’ll see how quick I have to learn then 😃

@user-qv6ts1sd6f The north of Portugal is very wet, but as a result is very green. The major difference in the climate between our region of Spain and say the middle to southern area of Portugal is the night-time temperatures. In Spain once you get to May, the day time temps are high and the night-time temps stay warmer too. Subtropical nights are a frequent thing from June to October. It seemed that even when the daytime temps were higher in Portugal, the night-time temps dropped to under 20° which although meant that we had to put a jacket and maybe trousers on for an evening stroll, it made for better sleeping. In our home in Potries, we would frequently need to put the Aircon on in the bedroom for an hour before bed, but taking a stroll and 9pm or 10pm in shorts and short sleeves was still really lovely. In fact we used to often go to the beach at 7pm and leave about 9pm or later when the sun set. Unfortunately we missed out on a lot of the Algarve region to be able to compare that and won't be able to go back again until after we've been to Turkey. If you want to drop us a message to discuss it further, feel free. As a rule, Spaniards don't like the British or any foreigners for that matter, who just have holiday homes, or buy houses, reform them and flip them for a profit, but once our neighbours realised we wanted to make our life here, they welcomed us with open arms and we've been blown away by the amount of people who have welcomed us back and told us that they missed seeing us, even just for those shorts conversations that you mentioned. 😍💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife ah I can relate to the sub tropical thing and hot nights as we’ve also lived in Australia… ideally I’m happy to be warm until it’s late evening and then we’re happy for it to be very cool to sleep. But I don’t suppose you can have everything in one place. I can understand why the Spanish don’t like that, and for us we want to make it home and to settle. What you have there sounds lovely, and thank you for the offer to message you it’s very much appreciated. Have a nice time when you reach home again and hopefully all goes well with sebastian 😊

@user-qv6ts1sd6f Sleep is so important. We actually reached home a week ago. We had to wait until Tuesday to see our vet, as Sunday was San Juan, which means Monday was the equivalent of a bank holiday. We are currently waiting for the biopsy results back. We had hoped they would be back last Friday, but we are still waiting. The downside of our beloved relaxed way of life here in Spain. 🤷🏼‍♀️💜🤟

Hahaha Darren keeps telling me that I need to stop calling it that, because UA-cam won't like it, but once it's in your head..?!? 🤣😂🤣😂🤣💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife it's a brilliant name!

@twogeeseandagaz1986 It's very appropriate too I feel. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣💜🤟

Thanks guys. Thankfully Sebastian is blissfully unaware, off in his merry little world of dementia a lot of the time and our vet agrees that it's not causing him pain, which is the ultimate blessing. One of my first 2 BC's had wall-eyes. A very handsome red merle. I never realised that it happened quite so often in BC's and Aussie's. 😍 Much love and chin scratches to Señor Koa. 💜🤟

Thank-you Simon. 💜🤟

A lot of the beaches were like that along the coast there, but the Atlantic Ocean is mean. Huge waves, strong current etc. Beautiful, but tough. 😘💜🤟

No tuvimos tiempo de parar y disfrutar mucho de regreso a Potríes, pero volveremos de esa manera en el futuro. Suena idílico. Gracias por tu comentario y sugerencia. Mucho amor Alison y Darren💜🤟

Hi, Sorry for the delay, UA-cam held your comment for review because of the map link. Monsaraz is actually on our list of places to visit when we return to Portugal. Hopefully it won't be too far in the future. Many thanks for your comment. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife no problem, we went to some of the places you went before hitting the Algarve 9 months ago , so it’s interesting watching your vlogs and also getting some more ideas. Always putting pins on Google for future trips 👍 should be back in October ourselves .

@jamesv2806 Sadly we won't be back that quickly. Haha our Google map is now more pins than map. Enjoy the other parts that you get to see later in the year. 💜🤟

@@findingxanadulife just working out , we,ll probably get 68 days so probably some of Spain too, just working that calendar out , just done 3 weeks France so need to deduct that off September 😮. Keep up the vids , good research for us 😄

@jamesv2806 🤣 You're welcome. We'll be seeing a bit more of Spain in the near future, then hopefully once the motorhome passes it's annual inspection, we'll be working our way through various countries, heading to Turkey. 🤞💜🤟

Yes. They dug up all the skeletons from 43 surrounding grave yards and placed the bones in the walls to make the chapel. The monks thought it would be nicer than just placing them in a crypt to never be seen again. It's a beautiful structure.😘💜🤟

That’s totally awesome!!! You know how I love bones and stuff 😂. If you ever find some cool bones and stuff please save me them!!!! I know I’d be totally fascinated in that chapel wana visit!!! X

We're sure most of them are genuine, but there must still be some that just make it up. 🤣😘💜🤟

Yeh or passed down by word of mouth wrong sometimes maybe x

Salut, nous aimons Denia et y allons souvent. Cela n’a tout simplement pas été présenté aussi bien qu’il aurait pu l’être. Merci pour votre commentaire. J'aime beaucoup Alison et Darren 💜🤟

The animals are coping well. They are used to super hot Spanish summers. We have all the windows and the door open whenever we can, to get a through draft. Plus we have 4 electric fans, 2 of which are running most of the time that we aren't driving. They also have 4 cool mats in various places. The dogs still refuse to use them, but the cats will now. We occasionally park up in a place with an electric hook up, but most of the time we rely on the rooftop solar panel. The laptop usually runs from our EcoFlow powerbank that has mobile solar panels to charge it and anything that needs 240v. The motorhome does have a 2000 watt inverter, but we have only used it once or twice. We just don't need it. Hope you guys are well. 😘😘 Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟

Wow Augusto, thank you so much for all the information. It doesn't surprise us that it is the largest building in Portugal, it's immense. We will watch the video too. Thank-you for watching and sharing. Much love Alison and Darren 💜🤟