When the monthly mortgage bill for Tanya Love’s London flat quadrupled in a matter of months, she was forced to take a difficult decision. Here, she tells Hannah Fearn how her family have moved to a rural cottage in Portugal near Lake Alqueva and rented out their London home on Airbnb just to be able to keep up with repayments.
While we were on holiday visiting family, my partner and I found a small home in need of renovation in a remote part of the Alentejo region of Portugal. We had been looking for a holiday place and we thought it would be a perfect background project. It’s a beautiful and relatively unknown area inland, close to…
