Quitting school and taking a family travel adventure: what Guardian readers say
ABC Life Style, Feb-06,2016
We took a decision to sell up and move to
Portugal in 1999 when our kids were three and five years old. We’d both been
working hard and hadn’t spent as much time with our kids as we would have
liked. Our first child had died at five months old. We chose to rent an apartment
in Lisbon. Our kids were thrown in at the deep end in a Portuguese convent
kindergarten. They were both speaking almost fluent Portuguese after about
four-five months. It was a complete change in lifestyle, food, culture,
language and climate that we experienced together – something that bonds us to
this day. It was an adventure, exciting, enriching and something everyone
should do if they have the guts and the wherewithal to do it.
Continue Reading...
