Olá, I'm Brenda van der Veen and I've been living in Portugal since August 2022. My love for Portugal started in 2017. I came to visit friends who started a glamping near here (Glamping Terra dos Anjos in Boavista- Serra do Bouro). Here I discovered that I really liked the way of life in Portugal. Slowing down, no watch. Of course I was here on vacation, but it felt like participating in the lifestyle they had adopted. If the neighbor came to ask if they could help harvest, we would help harvest. If we felt like eating mussels or oysters, we went to collect them in the lagoon at low tide. It may sound very simple, but that's what brought me here.

A lot has changed for me from October 2020 and I soon decided to cancel everything in the Netherlands and prepare for my emigration to Portugal. So I was on the plane in mid-August 2022 and my adventure started. The first nine months I lived with friends. In this time I have viewed many a piece of land and rejected an opinion refurbishment project. February 14, 2023 I finally reached an agreement with the sellers of Rua do Althino 8 and 8A, the property I have now renamed Casinha das Socas.