How would YOU react? 

Imagine going on a week-long all-inclusive retreat, settling in, and then finding out that there’s no running water. What would you do?

This is what my retreaters were presented with when they showed up at our luxury villa in southern Portugal last week! 

In fact, the whole experience got so cozy and familiar that it became a running joke that Kevin, the plumber, was everybody’s new best friend…

Are you a Hot House Flower too? 

I’ve been teased that I’m a delicate “hot house flower” given my distaste for the brisk waters of the northern Atlantic – even here in one of the southern most climes of Europe – the sunny warm Algarve.  At its warmest in southern Portugal, which is late summer and fall, the Atlantic water average soars … Read more