The Borboleta Letters: My Butterfly Life

The Borboleta Letters: My Butterfly Life

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Lessons on surviving a Zombie Apocalypse (learned from yesterday's power outage across the Iberian peninsula)
Hint: I won't.....
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Letter from Dartmoor, St David's Day.
...or a tale of lost sheep, and soul spaces
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Not A Borboleta Letter
...more like a 'Pupa's Postcard' 😬 written from the back of a cupboard, while I try to find Narnia...
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Can a beach solve your problems?
Probably not, but sometimes it gives you lemons!
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It's January, thwarts and all
Broken boilers. Kafkaesque bureaucracy. And a sickness bug. Hello, 2025!
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My Review of 2024: "Do more of what makes you happy" (Part 2)
Dancing, writing, and life as dog parents in Portugal from July to December 2024
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It's official: We've been Portuguese residents for two years
...but in some ways it's been a lifetime (or several!) in the making!
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My Review of 2024: "Do more of what makes you happy" (Part 1)
A personal skip through this past year as a new(ish) resident in Portugal, finding my feet, and my own little moments of happiness
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Flittings #6
Where I discover the connection between myself and Michel de Montaigne, John Locke, Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf. PLUS 3 freebie gift subscriptions to…
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What even is 'happiness'?
...or where my head goes when I see Portugal ranking 55th in the World Happiness Report 2024
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#4 Flittings
Feeling distinctly autumnal...
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Not even sure what 'normal' is anymore...
5 days when a large part of Portugal went from a state of 'alert', to 'emergency', to 'calamity'
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The Borboleta Letters: My Butterfly Life
The Borboleta Letters: My Butterfly Life
‘Borboleta’ (meaning ‘butterfly’) - my favourite Portuguese word, and the symbolism of regeneration, and of beauty emerging from decay seem apt for this Substack of mine as I set about making a new life in Porto! 🦋
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