Off-grid and Ignorant in Portugal

From Our Own Correspondent-style despatches from a former BBC reporter who's now battling to live off the grid in the Alentejo countryside. Selected audio recordings of his weekly blog which began in 2020.

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    May 21, 2025 – 08:13
  • Off Grid and SMUG in Portugal
    Apr 29, 2025 – 08:49
  • Opening Time
    Apr 20, 2025 – 09:15
  • We’ve done it!
    Mar 23, 2025 – 10:47
  • The Infinite Staircase
    Feb 16, 2025 – 07:27
  • Birthday Presence
    Feb 2, 2025 – 08:54
  • The Pleasure of Bleisure
    Jan 22, 2025 – 10:50
  • The "Making Of" Movie
    Dec 29, 2024 – 04:52
  • The Big Plan for Our Second Life
    Dec 8, 2024 – 07:53
  • Real People
    Nov 23, 2024 – 08:38
  • Opening time
    Oct 22, 2024 – 07:54
  • Clearing Skies
    Sep 8, 2024 – 09:28
  • Identity Crisis
    Aug 17, 2024 – 09:30
  • The Valley of Death
    Jul 21, 2024 – 09:43
  • Losing Perspective
    Jun 30, 2024 – 07:32
  • Moving Mountains
    Jun 5, 2024 – 10:37
  • Juggling Spinning Plates
    May 12, 2024 – 09:09
  • I love it when a plan comes together
    Apr 28, 2024 – 08:46
  • The Big Picture
    Apr 14, 2024 – 09:50
  • Water, water everywhere...
    Mar 31, 2024 – 08:15
  • The Small Things
    Mar 16, 2024 – 08:53
  • Missing
    Mar 10, 2024 – 10:24
  • Wheel of fortune
    Feb 22, 2024 – 09:05
  • A Birthday and a Bulldozer
    Feb 2, 2024 – 09:59
  • Landslide!
    Jan 20, 2024 – 09:13
  • Attack of the Giant Moles
    Jan 9, 2024 – 07:08
  • Accelerating into 2024...
    Dec 30, 2023 – 09:51
  • The Longest Night
    Dec 24, 2023 – 08:23
  • What a Day...
    Dec 16, 2023 – 08:49
  • Alentejo Wins Again
    Dec 2, 2023 – 09:02
  • Second Summer
    Nov 19, 2023 – 08:41
  • A Large Concrete Poop
    Nov 12, 2023 – 09:06
  • Come on Aline
    Oct 21, 2023 – 08:58
  • Getting properly plastered
    Oct 14, 2023 – 08:58
  • Operation Free Bar
    Oct 1, 2023 – 09:13
  • Rise of the Machines
    Sep 18, 2023 – 06:49
  • The Interiors Minister
    Sep 6, 2023 – 09:05
  • The Grand Tour
    Aug 26, 2023 – 06:24
  • That Old Foe Fire
    Aug 8, 2023 – 08:09
  • Valley of the Angeles
    Jul 29, 2023 – 08:10
  • Don't stop this train
    Jul 6, 2023 – 08:37
  • Hitting the wall
    Jun 28, 2023 – 07:25
  • Water-disaster
    Jun 10, 2023 – 07:32
  • European excursion
    May 25, 2023 – 09:55
  • Needing Val-ium
    May 14, 2023 – 10:57
  • Off-Grid 101
    Apr 30, 2023 – 10:56
  • A Centennial of Ignorance
    Apr 22, 2023 – 09:12
  • Taking a Break
    Apr 10, 2023 – 09:14
  • Roots and foundations
    Mar 26, 2023 – 07:46
  • Menagerie madness
    Mar 11, 2023 – 07:51
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