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Last update: October 07, 2024


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October, 2024


October, 2024

The path to normality!

Prepare well and have a plan B ready

Once you have arrived in Germany, how WELL you arrive depends on many factors.

Have you prepared for the worst-case scenario right from the start? Did you go bankrupt abroad, etc.?

Let's look at the most blatant case. You come back to Germany with no money, perhaps with debts. You don't have a permanent residence and are, so to speak, naked. Your family has no place to stay, and if they do, it doesn't necessarily count as a permanent residence.

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September, 2024


September, 2024

Without net

Due to this somewhat unforeseen course of the odyssey, i.e. the fact that mobile Internet / WLAN is only sometimes available, everything is a little delayed. Unfortunately, I can't post regularly as planned, but only when I have the benefit of the two mentioned.

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September, 2024



September, 2024


September, 2024


August, 2024


August, 2024


August 28, 2024


Last update: August 30, 2024

Clisson and the surrounding area

Now that I've found accommodation, I feel better. Just a little change of scenery takes my mind off things and my mood improves.

Clisson is a beautiful town and the surrounding area is in no way inferior.

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Last update: August, 2024

Alcobaça (Portugal) - Spain - Saint-Sebastien-sur-Loire (France)

A trip specially selected without toll roads.

The toll in Portugal is complicated, you have to see online what you have to pay. If you are registered, the full amount is deducted from your account.
Spain charges a reasonable amount, France is very expensive. If you avoid the toll you save a few euros, in my case it was almost €85.

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Last update: August 17, 2024

Why not make it more complicated

My "hotel on wheels" is not "properly" registered thanks to the Portuguese authorities.
This is because the car, like me, has or had German documents.
The car had a German license plate and a German registration. Then the time came that I had to re-register it, because you have to do it after a certain period of time.

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August 6, 2024


August 1, 2024

RECHERCHE

Un petit appartement en France

Nous recherchons un - T1/T2 à Basse-Goulaine / Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire / Haute-Goulaine.
Meublé ou non meublé

Envoyez un e-mail à J. Winkler ou utilisez le formulaire de contact. Ce serait une grande joie pour nous si, grâce à votre aide, l'odyssée prenait fin. Merci beaucoup.


Last update: August 25, 2024

Preparations

The preparations are quickly explained. My furniture was planned for sale right from the start. The problem is and was ... if you buy solid furniture in Germany and sell it in Portugal, you're a bit out of luck. A lot of things are cheaper in Portugal and people bargain until they drop. The falling over refers to the fact that at some point you say, okay, take it and that's it. So you give up and give the furniture away, so to speak. I think that even if you give it away, people still trade it.

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Last update: August 28, 2024

Preliminary information

The blog always contains the latest information and is always kept up to date.

Some 16 months after emigrating to Portugal, I am returning to ...?

The journey begins in Aljubarrota (Alcobaça) in Portugal and leads through Spain to Nantes in France. After a short stopover, I travel to Germany and the odyssey begins, which finally ends in France.


Last update: October 07, 2024

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