AN ADVENTUROUS couple kissed grey skies goodbye and left their old life far behind to settle down somewhere sunnier.
Iwan and Carissa, from North Wales, decided enough was enough as they watched rain fall and the rent prices soar.
The pair moved to central Portugal after the lock-down of 2020, where they found their “peaceful little corner of the world” and have never looked back.
It took them three days to drive to their new home that at the time was only a shack.
The land they decided to buy cost less than £10,000 and this, as well as the 300 days of sunshine, was what sealed the deal for the pair.
They settled on a small granite stone building nestled in 200 metres of olive trees and grape vines.
Carissa explained the original plan was to build a “simple wooden cabin and mostly live outside” but the process was much more difficult than expected.
She said: “Tackling the stone building was a much bigger undertaking than the little cabin we dreamed…
