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Forum: Portugal
Jan 5th 2024, 8:20 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,118
Posted By chislenko

Re: Cabanas de Tavira

There was a spate of muggings there about five years ago with tourists targeted by two Portuguese blokes. A bloke I know took a beating and had his personal items stolen. Sadly it had a major affect...
Forum: Portugal
Dec 19th 2023, 2:40 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 1,985
Posted By chislenko

Re: Driving from Bilbao to Lagos

Have always done the "straight down the west" toll free route.

We always stop roughly half way down at Bejar (Spain) not to be confused with Beja (Portugal)
Forum: Portugal
Nov 1st 2023, 8:42 am
Replies: 15
Views: 887
Posted By chislenko

Re: Bear With Me On This!

Yes, agree with your last part, however we usually book a house / apartment and getting contact info is quite difficult as they are usually only marketed through an agency like booking / cottages /...
Forum: Portugal
Nov 1st 2023, 8:40 am
Replies: 15
Views: 887
Posted By chislenko

Re: Bear With Me On This!

Nata, don't know if by planning or luck when we opened our account years back we opted for all mail to be sent to the UK. I think card validation is now a thing of the past with most banks, the only...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 31st 2023, 4:39 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 887
Posted By chislenko

Re: Bear With Me On This!

Postscript.

Just been into Booking.com and you can change your currency to Euros so that leads me to believe I could indeed book from the UK and use my Portuguese Card with no charges.

Edit. We...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 31st 2023, 3:13 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 887
Posted By chislenko

Re: Bear With Me On This!

Yes you are correct, a major bearing on the purchase is the currency it is offered in.

For instance if I book with say EasyJet or Booking.com from the UK the price will be displayed in Sterling....
Forum: Portugal
Oct 31st 2023, 1:27 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 887
Posted By chislenko

Bear With Me On This!

Somebody may have the answer!

If I were to use my Portuguese Bank card from our UK address / email address it obviously knows we are in the UK and puts a charge on, fair enough.

However if I...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 26th 2023, 8:43 am
Replies: 10
Views: 777
Posted By chislenko

Re: Sale of property

Our estate agent also wouldn't raise a finger until all the EPC etc was in place. We had left Portugal by this time so had to put our trust in the agent. To be fair it all worked out well.

Having...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 26th 2023, 8:34 am
Replies: 10
Views: 777
Posted By chislenko

Re: Sale of property

I don't have a great deal of knowledge re tax on global income. Our solicitor told us about the inflation uplift and the accountant dealt with all the form filling / submission. The bottom line was...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 25th 2023, 9:33 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 777
Posted By chislenko

Re: Sale of property

We shopped around and they were all pretty much the same %. We eventually went sole with the local to us agent. We paid 4% plus IVA. Obviously the estate agent costs are offset against any CGT.
...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 25th 2023, 11:51 am
Replies: 10
Views: 777
Posted By chislenko

Re: Sale of property

When we sold ours last year our agent seemed to hastily stop marketing the property on the basis of a verbal offer.

I reminded the lady that a property is not sold until money has changed hands. ...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 23rd 2023, 11:29 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,421
Posted By chislenko

Re: Algarve locations

Thanks for your knowledgeable reply.
Forum: Portugal
Oct 23rd 2023, 6:03 am
Replies: 28
Views: 2,421
Posted By chislenko

Re: Algarve locations

Has there been a conscious effort to round up the stray dogs then? Is this something backed by the Authorities or just people doing it off their own back?

There used to be a fair number of them...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 22nd 2023, 9:03 pm
Replies: 28
Views: 2,421
Posted By chislenko

Re: Algarve locations

With regard to rescue animals there is no shortage of abandoned cats and dogs!
Forum: Portugal
Oct 2nd 2023, 9:04 pm
Replies: 23
Views: 1,080
Posted By chislenko

Re: Someone to fish cable through conduit

Unfortunately I have no experience of house cabling. Presumably though the cable is metal based.

When I change an internally routed cable on my push bike I use a very strong magnet and "pull" it...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 26th 2023, 11:48 am
Replies: 5
Views: 554
Posted By chislenko

Re: Moving personal items back to the UK

We did exactly the same process last May. We just packed all our belongings into the car . Came back Santander - Plymouth just waived straight through.
Forum: Portugal
Sep 25th 2023, 11:15 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,460
Posted By chislenko

Re: UK expat bank accounts closing

Agree Eric. Although we have sold up in Portugal and finalised everything there we still have money in a Portuguese Bank which is very handy when we are holidaying in the Euro Zone.

Millennium...
Forum: Portugal
Sep 25th 2023, 11:03 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 538
Posted By chislenko

Re: Energy certificate

When we sold up last year think it was circa 290 Euros.

Silver lining is that it is deductable from any profit on selling!
Forum: Portugal
Sep 14th 2023, 9:59 am
Replies: 3
Views: 582
Posted By chislenko

Re: Foundation costs

I like that, "a concrete price" for your concrete. Made me smile 😊
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Forum: Portugal
Aug 19th 2023, 6:03 pm
Replies: 26
Views: 1,749
Posted By chislenko

Re: tourist season

Double edged sword.

The local businesses either want the money or the locals want the peace and quiet.
Forum: Portugal
Jul 10th 2023, 5:30 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 850
Posted By chislenko

Re: Anybody driving to Portugal in a van???

You can see why I was confused Bill!
Forum: Portugal
Jul 9th 2023, 10:19 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 499
Posted By chislenko

Re: sheet rock; glue and screws?

That's a new word for me (sheetrock) Is it what we would term as plasterboard?

If so, have just done my garage ceiling and only used screws.
Forum: Portugal
Jul 9th 2023, 10:13 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 850
Posted By chislenko

Re: Anybody driving to Portugal in a van???

I can't help you with your transport but am bemused by glass which is 100 cm being three metres long ?
Forum: Portugal
Jun 28th 2023, 11:37 pm
Replies: 27
Views: 1,673
Posted By chislenko

Re: Ryanair. STD to LIS more expensive that LIS to STD

Never thought about it before but STD is an unfortunate code for an airport 🙂
Forum: Portugal
Jun 27th 2023, 10:51 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 3,627
Posted By chislenko

Re: Where to park in Tavira

Free parking by the skateboard park and the bar there does a cracking burger. Short, flat walk into town past Abilio bike shop.


Search on Guarda Rios Hamburgaria for directions.
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