Q&A Have we made a good choice by getting off grid homestead in Central Portugal
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2023
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My wife and I think you are a fantastic, most hard working and down to earth couple on youtube! We wish you all the best of luck with your life in Portugal🤗🤗
Thank you very much, we are doing our best 🤗
You are not just "dreamers", you are brave pioneers!
Thank you! 🙏
Do lover your videos, and all your hard work, your honesty, your sense of humour and a desire to live a sustainable life. Wonderful. Spend the money wherever your want do.
Thank you very much for your help, really appreciate it!🤗
Well Done, you are out of the rat race and following your dreams.
Life is to short. Enjoy and things will fall into place. I admire you both.
Exactly! Would be lovely to help other people to realize that, thank you 🙏
Love you two. You are just yourselves, honest, down to earth. It's refreshing. Just continue going with the flow. You have each other and seem to want the same thing. Continued good luck!
Thank you 😊
You guys seem dedicated, diligent and seem to "have your feet on the ground". I wish you lots of good health and success in your endeavors!
Thank you very much! 🤗
Just finished watching your video, and the Q &A was very interesting, I admire you both for doing what you love & make your dreams come true. Looking forward to following you on your journey. Have a blessed week, and do take time to relax some.
Thank you 😄
Loved the Q&A. You guys have a really good attitude to life and I am looking forward to following your progress. Happy days!
Thank you for following us all the best!🤗
I admire your honesty and see you are kind people . I had a few places similar to yours and more i watch your progress it makes me want to do another project . Hope you get your dream fulfilled .
Thank you and ofcourse go for it! 👍😃
I like the way you thinking about nature....
Good luck with your plans guys 🤞
Thank you 🙏
We also love watching your videos and in such a short time we found the quality of the videos are becoming better with each new video, keep up the great work best wishes from 🇨🇦🇵🇹
Thank you very much 🤗
Just finished watching you two at 1.45pm Sunday , we could have refreshed it for the rest of the day, you bring so much joy and your view's on life in general, it is so pleasant to watch and share your new life. Thank you so much . Clive & Dawne
Thank you for your kind words guys 👍🙏
You have lots of skills to manage the needed changes for your property. Hard work and effort and patience which you appear to have lots of and the determination to get it done. Great effort will be rewarded! Oh I am very happy that you are taking the time to repoint and making that building beautiful - it would be a shame to cover it over.
We were dreaming about it for too long not to have patience 😄 and regarding the cottage I just couldn’t do the other way 👍
Enjoy your day guys 💐🥂💐🥂💐 Enjoy your videos as you guys are so down to earth 👌Much love from Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Thank you, most likely we are going to help Irish couple on their cottage work on thursday, if they don’t mind will film a bit there 👌😀
Two beautiful souls, keep following your dreams, you are both glowing with health and happiness XXX
Thank you, we will ! 🤗
I am recently retired and I totally understand your "feeling guilty about sitting down" syndrome.....
Living that sort of life I think the main thing is to enjoy it, of course there are things need doing but need to find the balance 😄
Morning Guys, you are becoming so confident presenting your videos, talking directly to your audience 🥰🥰
Missed not seeing yous this week, I'll message you xxx
Thank you, we were just talking about you 😃 maybe lets go for a swim today? 🤩
@@portugalitis and then we received yours text and your exiting plans for today 😍😍😍
Hi guys great video you will make mistakes and learn from them you've already learned one not to let G catch you relaxing lol keep up the good work take care
Thats 👍 🤣🤣🤣 problem is when Im disappearing she starts looking for me 🤣🤣🤗
Good luck thank you for sharing your life with us you are lovely couple 😍I enjoy your videos 🙏🙏
Thank you 🙏
Love your positivity!
I really think that your way of life and thinking will work out very good. Thanks for your video’s!
Thank you for your kind words🤗
Good luck in Portugal. It’s a beautiful country. Wishing you the best!
It is beautiful country 👍
Just wonderful to see you guys smile just keep safe. Keep happy stay in shade, tell me when you have some rain 😊. Al the best for you and your little homestead.
Thank you, we pray for some rain now 🙂
All the best living your Portugal dream! I'm looking forward to following your journey! 🎉😊😊
Thank you, glad you like it 👍🤩🤗
I really enjoyed your Q and A. Great to get to know you a little better. I love your videos because they are down to earth and interesting. You are both hard working so you will do well in Portugal or for that matter anywhere you go. Love your kittens. Cannot wait to see the verandah be built, it will be a great addition to the property. I hope we can look forward to some good recipes. Till next time..................
Thank you 🙏 G is cooking right now, so there will be recipe in the next video 😄
Great Q&A guys! Livin' the life 👍
Thank you ☺️
Very enjoyable to listen to you guys.😊
Thank you! 🤗
It is nice to hear your laughs. 🇵🇹🇺🇸
Thank you 😊
We love your video. Enjoy what you doing❤
Glad you like it 🤗
My wife is still seeing me too! wonderful way of putting it. A gentleman`s way
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Some people say grow carrots in raised beds to stop carrot flies. Love your videos
Will definitely try to get some raised beds for winter growing 👍
Very inspiring video. Like your down to earth approach of things. Hope to visit you guys some time this year.
You are very welcome to do so, thank you very much for the coffee, we own some for you now when you come to Portugal 😄
This was really interesting - you are such an open and honest couple that it is refreshing to listen to you. Nothing fake about either of you. I want you to do well. Hopefully you will start to get more and more sponsors and free products to try. Have a lovely Sunday and don’t feel guilty about relaxing without a shovel in your hand!!!❤️
Thank you! Last year at this time we were in youtube every single night looking for as much info we can get, thats why when we started our journey we want to give as much info as we can for people wanting to make the same move we did 🙏🤗
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I found your channel a week or so ago. I have since watched all of them. I find your journey to be one that many people wish they would have done. You will succeed because of your work habits and desire to be in Portugal. Keep pushing you will get there. Your property is very interesting with many possibilities From here in south Texas have a great day and keep planting and building.
Thank you in watching and trusting us! It means a lot to us🤝
Takes a lot of grit to tackle what you are doing. My husband’s grandfather was from Lithuania. My own daughter still has 25% Baltic in her DNA. Keep up the good work ❤️
My grandma’s brother emigrated to the USA during 2nd world war, as he didn’t want to go to soviet army…
Good morning Andrius & Gee 😊,
Interesting video guys. Have a great week ahead 🤗🙏🤗
Thank you! 🤩you too have a nice week
There is a good sample of a bushcraft roof over a caravan in the Indie Projects first vídeos of their Portuguese barn renovation
We seen them first videos, also visited that property as well, it’s 15 min drive away from us 👍
I really enjoy watching you on this journey in Portugal. You are down to earth and always seem positive about things. I wish you well.
Thank you! This country gives a lot of positivity to people 👍😀
Loved your Q&A. The more I know about you the more I like you both. You have done so much in such a short time. One question for you would be your visa situation as part of the EU. Andrius you always look so sirious but deep inside you have a great sense of humor. I’m sure by word of mouth you will get other jobs. And Gee it is going to take you a couple of months more to deprogram yourself to slow down and stop and smell the roses. Lots of love from Florida
Thank you, we have Lithuanian passports so no visa is required for us, and many people before told me that I look grumpy 😃 it’s not the case 🤣
Right now the Uk cannot hold a candle to Portugal for sustainable lifestyle, tho both countries have positive and negatives, but Portugal is a Nature lovers paradise. You both look relaxed and happy great Q and A.😊
Portugal is perfect for this kind of living because of the climate, and the fact that sun gives you all the power needed, on average there are 300 sunny days a year 👌
If covering your wells gives you better safety and less water loss because of evaporation - do you need to put a concrete lid on them? I’m sure you could do a peaked cap with your eucalyptus and branches..
You could even grow climbing vegetables over such caps or screens.
Just a thought.
Wishing you well - enjoying your work and attitude👍
That is very good point definitely worth considering 👍🙏
Wise words, if you want to work, you will find it, or create it ☝️💜
The hardest part is to leave comfort behind 🙂
@@portugalitis You might check with Cindy Vine if she might like to hire to strim her fields or odd jobs you're skilled enough to take on? She's near Orca... is that comfortably within your driving range?
I really like it that you are thinking of a very secure chicken co-op. That's a big problem for many beginners, not to secure their crops and chickens
We also getting guard dog puppy as well 😁
Thank you for this episode, love the treasures! See you in the next one 👍
Glad you enjoyed it 🤗
Thank you for sharing your life story. God luck and God bless you in your chosen land.❤️🙏
Thank you so much! 🤗
Hello, my husband and I really like you two
😊 thank you
Siberia is beautiful too. Being from Canada l appreciate love for colder climes.
It is but taken the current situation it would’ve been a mistake…
So happy to be part of your journey. You are hard working people and you deserve to have your dreamed land. The kitties will be fine. Make sure that they get an anti worm medicine and latter their vaccines. Love and be safe!😘🤗🌼🇻🇪
Thank you 🤗 kitties are sorted now, went to the vets on saturday 👍
You are doing a great job. Love your sense of humour too.
Trying our best, thank you 🙏
I am enjoying your videos and this q&a very much
Your explanations are very well done and interesting
Thank you 🙏
We ebony the Q And A!
Thank you :) Gxxx
Another informative video, Thankyou. Look forward to watching your journey progress
Thank you, glad you liked it! 😀
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. Watching from Orlando Florida. 🇺🇸🇵🇹
Thank you for joining us! 😄
Thank you for sharing, not easy to expose (lol) yourselves. Love your channel.
Thank you for joining us🙏
I liked the answers, I hope soon we will reach 5 thousand subscriptions
Thank you, we hope so too 👍🙂
Looking forward to watching your Channel grow and seeing your farm thrive 😊
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Thank you very much 🤗
Dekui uz labai informatyvu video. Lauksime kito. Sėkmės 😘😘
Dekui uz ziurejima 👌😄
Nice listening to you i felt like i was sat in your garden with you both it was so easy listening to you looking forward to watching you build your canopy over your van good luck
Me, too!
Thank you guys 🤗
Another great video, thanks for sharing your story. There are several choices for a 1.0L city car for basic transportation, inexpensive road tax and good fuel economy. I look forward to your next video on the caravan roof structure.
For now we decided to have a truck only, when I have more time and can go fishing more often then we might get something small and cheap
Hello from Milton Keynes! We are moving over in 5 weeks 😊
Hello, we used to live in Emerson Valley until 2014, good luck with your move 👍🙂
Very interesting, you are both a fantastic couple. Wish you all the best and God bless and stay safe !!
Thank you 🙏 all the best
You welcome guys 😀, great q&a video by the way 🤙🤙🤙👌✅
How was your property purchase? All went good?👍
I hope all will get sorted out with your property soon in Portugal so you can go forward and it is not bad to grow all over the property as you will want to see what grows well and where. I wish you the very best in your endeavours. Greetings from the UK.
Thank you for your wishes 🙏🤗
Nice to get to know you a little more!
Thank you 😀
Enjoying your blog. Keep going guys a lot of fun for you over the future years to come.
Thank you! Oh yes a big adventure awaits us, making barn livable 👍
Thank you for sharing your story..... I look forward to following your adventures ‼️
Watching from California USA
Thank you for watching us🤗
Simply Lovely!
Thank you Cathy 😄
Thank you from Dubai
Welcome!!
For now I'm "working" with research for myself, because I'd like to try and live that same lifestyle, but I do feel like maybe I should be writing my blook (started years ago), studying German (I live in a German-speaking area) or "DO SOMETHING! Don't just sit there", doing research😅
Writing book doesn’t count as activity according to my wife you should be running around with a shovel 🤣
Great Q&A 👍
Thank you 🙏
Indeed you are pioneers, and brave and adventurous, and you have vision. All the very very best to you both :)
Thank you for your kind wishes, all the best to you too 👍🤗
Another great vid,all the best
Thank you!! 😀
Hello, I wish you both a nice day and I was wondering if you would like to share some traditional cooking recipes? Again have a nice day
We will show one more recipe on our next video 👍😊
great show. thanks
Thank you 🙂
From my observation, you need to plant enough for you AND the wild animals, unless you put good fences around your veggies and plastic screens over your fruit trees. That didn't use to ba a problem before, because every family had their own abundant vegetable garden and fruit trees, enough for their family, to give away or barter and for the wild animals too
Will continue experimenting with growing all different stuff 👍
Watching you from Tasmania and loving it. Would love to hear a few Portuguese words .
Thank you, still learning Portuguese 😁
New subscriber here 👋🏼😊. Very enjoyable hangout with you two. So glad you chose to pursue your Portuguese lifestyle. With me, you're preaching to the choir to come out there. God willing, i'll get there while i've still got juice in me 🤲🏼. I'm just really proud of you to seize your dream in your prime. I've said all my city adult life that 9 to 5 work is overrated and sleep is underrated. It's taken decades and covid for others to realize what's truly important in life. Since you began and lived your adulthood until now in the UK, do you feel you're outlook is British as well as Lithuainian? You're very easy to connect with, even from California 😊.
Thank you for your kind words, and yes go for it! 😀 and regarding British or Lithuanian, were somewhere in between, like you said we spend all our adult life in UK 🙂
A Lituânia deverá ser o país que vou visitar no próximo Natal. Sou professora e através do programa Erasmo fazemos intercâmbio com uma escola da Lituânia.
Boa ideia terem vários burros. Eu também os adoro. Pesquisa por Burro Mirandês, é uma raça de burro autóctone de Portugal e são muito lindos e peludos 😍
Thank you for your advice 🙂👍
The new mimosa growth would probably make very good fences for vegetable gardens and the chicken "quarters". Those thing branches plus wire make good fences. Usually another tree is used, but those look fine too, when ready to be cut in half. In German you call those "staketten" fences
I know what you mean, we will be using metal wire panels for chicken coop fences, lots of foxes around
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Thank you for your detailed journey story. I will do it next year. your information was very helpful.
Wish you good luck 👍 😀
@@portugalitis Thank you. may I show up at your doors next year. God Bless
I meant may be
You never know 😆
I ,ve started the preparation go my move and God bless you. See you beautiful beautiful people.
Thanks for all your info! For about the invasive trees. I heard other ppl say that the do not make good fire wood. And there cause an extreme fire risk. So I would follow up the advise of the Australian viewers. You can replant native trees for shade and ambience. And you dont need to remove them all at once. See if you can find someone who will do a a part and then next year another part? You work so hard I cant imagine it's only be 2 months!! Be aware you need to slow down soon as summer starts. Take care ❤❤
Unfortunately can’t afford to hire someone, need to be very careful with money before we finish our barn restoration/conversion 👍
@@portugalitis Maybe you can trade services with Luke of Luke and Sarah's Off Grid Life? He's really handy with felling trees. And they have scads of hectares I imagine they still could use help clearing? Or Luke might like the help of 2 more brawny hands?
You really are better off getting rid of your eucalyptus. Luke and Sarah have nearly eradicated all their pine bc of the threat of processionary caterpillars threat to their animals. Luke probably has tips re eucalyptus (like debarking immediately after felling, etc).
Don't worry about any ugly or surplus or not-to-your-taste produce you grow as maybe Cindy Vine might like to buy direct from you for her kune kune pigs? She buys produce and trimmings from supermarkets and outdoor markets for the pigs, but maybe she'd buy produce you can't use directly from you?
Your trip to her place would be worthwhile if she took you on for strimming fields and also maybe collecting & processing felled trees & branches around her farm.
There are many people around who has horses and other animals, nothing will go to waste, I have offered my help for Cindy back in winter time but she probably had enough volunteers at that time
Sometimes she doesn't have volunteers or paid help available. Sometimes she's waiting long months for her paycheck 😊. Maybe you might check now or seasonally. Like, she hasn't had help olive picking.
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Thank you 🙏
Hi ! I liked your answers and enjoyed the way yoù choosed your new lífe .,and you are strong workers , you will manage for everything ...have you met your neighbors are you far from a village
Hi, yes we met our closest neighbors, and we are about kilometer away from the nearest village, thank you 🙏
Boa tarde meus queridos amigos gostei muito do vidio agora ja sei tudo e fiquei muito feliz de terem escolhido Portugal para viverem. Uma coisa que me deixou muito feliz foi saber que sao da Lituania os meus avós maternos eram da Lituania mas fugiram de lá quando começou a segunda guerra mundial e vieram para Portugal o curioso é que compraram uma propriedade perto do Porto a minha mae tinha 14 anos e minha tia 12 mais tarde minha mae tinha 19 anos casou com o meu pai que era português. Eu nao falo leto mas os meus irmaos mais velhos aprenderam a falar corretamente eu já nao aprendi mama teve 4 rapazes e eu que fui a 5a filha os meus irmaos falavam português e leto eu ja nao aprendi nada . Espero meus amigos que todos os seus sonhos se realizem . Eu já sou avó de uma menina e de um menino de 5 anos e a outra filha está á espera de bébé. Vou continuar a ver o vosso canal pois adoro. Muito obrigado e volte sempre ❤❤
Thank you for watching us, what a family history you have! I have some family members you left the country at them difficult times as well!
Love your vlogs you answer questions and you seem very happy.❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for watching 😄
Do think seriously of making a bushcraft roof or put a huge tarp over your caravan before July, or you'll be "baking" in there, unless your solar panels are enough to run a small air-conditioner or at least a DIY swamp-cooler
We have bought metal sheeting roof for that, will start installing it in the next video
Please try to feed your kittens on unprocessed meat. Chicken wings, legs etc. I don’t know prices in Portugal, but maybe rabbit is affordable too.
Processed food is good for emergency situations.
At 7 weeks it is early but definitely not way too early to have the kittens, my daughter has a baby ginger that she got at 5 days ,eyes just opening. It is 8 weeks old now, eating raw meat and is ready to go to its forever home. Below 6 weeks, if they come from their mother, it is a bit early but abandoned,kittens can be raised to be healthy cats.(my husband and I had a Veterinary hospital for 40 years)
You answered my question beautifully.. thank you❤️
It was very interesting to hear about your former lives.
Cheers from Australia ❤️🇦🇺
Thank you for the info, we trying our best to get what kittens need, they are getting very lively now, jumping onto the olive trees, running around, even trying to attack dogs 😀
@@portugalitis Wonderful… kitten play is the best time waster ever invented ..Cheers🇦🇺🇦🇺
Greetings from Kawartha Lakes Canada, loving your channel. We were wondering how big your property is and how the Portuguese lessons are going?
Greetings! We done 1 month intense course and at the moment not studying, will came back to it a bit later, when it’s going to be to hot to work
@@portugalitis Perfect adjustment of work to the weather 👍🏼
Hi , what a nice life style , it would be nice to know how you took the Portugal Visa ,could you please tel us more of the details of the Visa procedures ?
Thanks .
We have EU passport (Lithuanian) so don’t need any visa
P.S you say you would like chickens, but you can buy eggs from neighbour, would it be cheaper than buying chicken's , also the food and housing them, less work for you both to look after. Clive and Dawne
It’s just having them would be nice 😀
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What do you miss about Lithuania? (Besides family)
Absolutely nothing except family 😉
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They are adorable 😊
No promises, no promises….lol
No Promises 🤞😄
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Gostava de saber porque escolheram Portugal e não outro país do Sul da Europa, como por exemplo, Espanha, Itália, Grécia…?
At first it was Spain, but then we seen Portugal 🙂
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hi... I watched all your videos, well almost done. I have a question. I am planning on buying a property in Portugal. Small Bldg with small land not much. I wanna have chickens like you and maybe pigs. My question is , I retire in 8 yrs, meaning I can't move there yet, so , can I buy a property and just move there when I retire?... I just wanna buy something to have and slowly either repair or maintain slowly... thanks in advance.
Yes, absolutely I would do that, prices are on the rise big time! And you will have a place were to spend your holidays, also as you said, slowly slowly could repair it and have it ready to move in when you are ready to make a move! Good luck with your search! 👍
How much would you charge to clear a "jungle" of 5000square meters?... In Benquerença-Penamacor....
I charge €12 per hour if I have to use petrol powered tools, thats all consumables included, or €9 per hour for manual labor
what is the most common engine size in a car for Portugal 1.3 - 1.6 .......great white north .....S
Our truck is 2.5 when buying locally there is no tax it’s only when trying to register foreign car you pay a fortune
@@portugalitis so plane to come to Portugal with no car buy there on arrival .........S
Its the easiest straight forward way 😄
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