Bedlam wrote:
I have relatives in southern section of Portugal. I have not been there yet.
Its the only central southern European country we have not visited. Should be interesting. I am reasonably fluent in Spanish French and German but am limited to hello, goodbye, please and thank you in Portuguese. . According to our Spanish friends many people in Portugal are reasonably comfortable in English and French due to a 1000 years of trading etc and of course many can get along in Spanish. We are not too worried. We are there for about 3 weeks and a bit. There are also a lot of British Snowbirds in at least one of the areas we are visiting. We will probably do a little scouting for snowbird destinations as once we retire we'll be switching our snowbird destination to Europe. More than likely though southern Spain. Our favorite part of Europe. 5 years away though. Should be an adventurer.
