
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. alastairleithead.substack.com
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 80 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Personal JournalsPlaces & TravelSociety & Culture | |||

For a recovering news addict, the daily barrage of bad news breaks over me like the Atlantic waves on our wild west Portuguese coast.
The inundation of daily briefings, updates and newsletters which arrive from the various trusted outlets from diffe... more
One of the great things about being married to a Portuguese Swede is also one of the great things about being an only child: it really pays off at Christmas.
As a kid I was the spoilt brat with no brothers or sisters to share the gift space on Santa... more
We have already learned a lot of new jobs in this new career path, and for the past two weeks we’ve been trying to learn another one: marketing.
Having just about got to grips with off-grid living (first basic, then advanced level), building site pr... more
On the rare occasion the entire Portuguese power grid goes down for a few hours we are positively smug, but the other side of the coin is keeping everything running when a big storm hits.
And all of us on the western edge of Europe have had some kin... more
It’s more than 30,000 years since elephants last wandered the rolling landscape of Portugal’s Alentejo, but that’s all about to change.
The last known tracks the pachyderms left behind are a series of fossilised footprints discovered here on our wil... more
In the voyage of discovery that is making it up as you go along, our little late-summer lull didn’t last very long.
I last wrote about us suddenly realising it was September with the brief moment we had to reflect on our first summer season as small... more
So that’s what they mean by the silly season...how did it suddenly become September?
It’s been both exhilarating and exhausting, but we couldn’t have asked for a better summer start to the latest stage of our off-grid Portuguese adventure.
And this... more
We’ve heard many encouraging words in the various iterations of these despatches, from Off-Grid and Ignorant, Off-Grid and Open and now Off-Grid and Entertaining (people)...in Portugal.
And having welcomed quite a few guests already this summer, we ... more










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