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My Journey to Buying a Ruin and Living Off Grid in Portugal – Part 2

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My Journey to Buying a Ruin and Living Off Grid in Portugal – Part 2

Here’s the second part of the video explaining my journey to life off grid renovating a ruin into a tiny house here in Central Portugal!

* Oops! I made a mistake! I paid just under €14,000 for the land, not €1,400. Now THAT would have been a bargain! The land is 1,800 square metres. *

I explain my journey from South Africa where we left off the last video, all the way to Portugal via Rwanda where I lived for seven years. I talk about my businesses in East Africa making websites and maps, and some of my travels where I took courses to learn about natural building.

It’s been quite a journey from life in Canada back on 2001 to Portugal now with lots of adventures along the way. I’m very happy to have had all of those stops and opportunities along the way, but I’m also excited to now be settled here in Portugal for the next chapter where I can stay put and design and build my little piece of the world.

As always, thanks for watching and please do like the video, share it around, and subscribe if you like what you’ve watched. Thanks!

LINKS TO MY BUSINESSES
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Africa Guide Maps –
Living in Kigali –

STOPS ON MY TRAVELS
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Rancho Mastatal –
Keela Yoga Farm –
Mount of Oaks –

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47 COMMENTS

  3. Even though I agree with you regarding having your own place and that you have an affinity towards natural building, the problem with this is that if you allow everyone to have their own ideas and methods of building the country ends up looking all different and then you have one building out of wood, the next out of cobb, then stones, then bricks etc etc, this forces the authorities to enforce building codes onto people, I would rather stick to some tried and tested methods that are familiar to that part of the country in which you reside, just my idea but hey.

  6. Hi Kirsty, I've watched all your videos but I've enjoyed this particular one so much partly because it's very inspirational and also because you've been to my country Uganda. When you initially mentioned Rwanda, I was like hmmm, I wish she had visited nearby Uganda too, only to realise that you had actually been there. I'm a bit jealous that Rwanda stole your heart but I admit that it's such a beautiful little country with all its rolling hills. I would still like to hope that Uganda is most welcoming like visitors usually comment 😉😊. Otherwise , I'm very happy for you and very proud of you for making such great achievements in such a short space of time. I'm glad too that you enjoy the process/journey because that's very important! Also, permaculturally, the size of your plot can turn out being more productive because you have the opportunity to work each square space without getting overwhelmed and instead have a smaller zone 5. Looking forward to all your future videos and wishing you all the best 💕🌹🌻

  10. What an accomplished person you are Kirsty! I am really enjoying your videos and the land is so beautiful. I am so looking forward to seeing more of natural building and growing on the land. I have said before, I selfishly use your videos to motivate myself to get on with the gardening and allotment tasks I have to do, as well as trying to rebuild my two sheds. Tiny projects compared with what you are doing, but I really do take inspiration from the fact you are happy to work at your own pace and are not put off by things taking time. Wonderful! Take Care. J

  11. Hey Kirsty, so cool to hear the rest of your backstory 🙂 You really have done SO much! Your land really was a bargain especially as it has so many trees and own water, and you've made it into your own space over the last year. Love your maps! Those are indeed big projects to take on. Looking forward to see what you take on next and what colour you chose for the door in the end! 🙂 PS: Where do you get those fly-beads? I think I need one of those too!

  14. You have been so blessed with friendships! I wonder if you could switch things up with other printed materials. for income. One channel I watch sells cards with drawings of plants from their homestead as the artwork on the cover. They are blank inside. Another channel had small art prints. My daughter has some postcard size art she bought from an artist she was supporting. They came in a set of four. You are talented enough to do any or all of those things.

  15. Wow! You have had quite the adventuresome life. The skills you learned will help you with developing your homestead. That shed should be great fun to build. Right now I'm trying to decide if it would be more beneficial for me to build a cold frame or a small greenhouse. I want to build something! 🙂👍👍👍

  17. You are delightful, engaging and a treat to watch. Seeing that you have a new video, brightens my day. Thank you for your efforts and I hope that eventually you will receive financial reward for your sharing in this series. Ironic that you'll paint the door, but we won't see because of the fly beads.

  18. You are very courageous and I admire that adventurous spirit…Fourteen hundred Euros!…that is really very inexpensive for a piece of land and a dwelling…well done, thus far.

  19. Great installment, I can't wait to hear more. I'd be curious to know about property taxes as I've come across different seemingly contradictory information. Also, how is it dealing with government offices? Can you speak and read/write Portuguese?

  21. 🙋hi from Scotland ,hi Kirsty great wee vidio it was nice to hear your story I can't wait to see the colour of the door ,by the way I think I one of my recent comment I said I had not had a Steve for a long time well would you believe it I have a Steve on my top and bottom lips plus all of his family I hate them there still at the painful stage lol 😆 hope your still enjoying having your wee mum and dad over take care cheers 🍷 till next time Anne Scott from Scotland 💐💐

  24. Shut-the-door-beads!!! WOWZERS!! I can't believe you got that gorgeous little piece of paradise for that amount! You are one blessed Canuck-pickle and I wish you ALL the BEST! <3

  27. Inspiring video I think life is about journeys that makes life much more interesting, more of them make everything exciting in many ways ,we learn about essentials ,about simplicity about ourselves and others we get a real chance to become open minded ,accommodating ,forgiving ,appreciative of many things that we take for granted.
    thanks for sharing.
    looking forwards to the next one

  28. Really interesting story! And nice to hear something positive about Ruanda. I agree with the one comment about pinning the correct land price to avoid thousands of disbelieving viewer reactions. I am looking forward to seeing tool shed building.

  38. what a great journey of life your on buying land in portugal seems to be the in thing now on you tube ,would love to do something like that,want a helper lol bed n food id be there haha hitting the sub to watch your journey

  42. This was great! When you said 1,400 Euro I almost bought a ticket to Portugal to look for land! Still, 14k is a big bargain. Will you show your mama? Painting the door? I want to see what kind of woman created such an adventurous person!

  44. Wow 1400 euros that would be a decent set of tires and rims for your car , sounds amazing! Getting lots of travelling in when your young is the ticket , who knows what commitments and health you will have when you get into your later thirties and older. 👍😎

  45. Wow Kirsty we could say, you have a pint of Africa in you as well 😁, me living in South Africa knows well, well anywhere in Africa you learn respect for self made and importance of learning self sustenance acquiring life skills and entrepreneurship eh? WE just had floods no water 5 weeks and you realise how important it is to be grateful for the small things in life, take it easy and don't mess with the cutlery 🤣🤣🤣

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