Hi everyone. We are a retired couple living in Turkey at the moment but are considering a move to Spain, or Portugal.

My husband is a retired Surveyor and I worked as a telephonist/receptionist.

We have 3 children and 9 grandchildren who we go back to see during the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays. We missed them terribly when we first came out and it was touch and go whether we went back but we are more settled now thanks to Skype! but don’t want to live in Turkey now as our children would prefer us to be nearer to the UK.

Our eldest grandchild is 25 and youngest 4 and we were hands on having them all to stay at weekends (so we deserve a rest!!) it’s the younger ones we miss.

As we are quite an active couple, before we get too old we want to visit a few more countries and the way to do this is maybe would be house/pet sit free of charge and this might give us an idea where to settle but early days yet.

Anyway, look forward to getting more involved with the forums and finding out about different places. As we hadn’t left the UK for a holiday until our 40’s it’s quite exciting to have all the countries to read about.

Christina
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