Christopher's Expat Adventure

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is the standard scale used in Europe to quantify foreign language proficie...

Wales is one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom .  It is on the island of Great Britain, west of England .  Wales is a ...

Portugal was great and we had a very relaxing week exploring the country.  It was also well-timed as we only had to deal with one day of ...

Lisboa is the capital city of Portugal .  It is also the country's largest city.  Lisbon proper has +547,000 residents but the metro a...

Sintra is about 28 km (~17 miles) from Lisbon .  It's a small town with about 33,000 inhabitants.  The historic town is home to numero...

To the south of Porto , on the other side of the Douro River, is the city of Nova de Gaia.  Simply known as "Gaia", the city has ...