Moving home

[steve01]

Hi David,
we've moved from 3 countries now.
Average cost between 4-5000.
Things go missing, things get broken, things get damaged.

Unless you have a lot of things you're very fond of i'd sell them in England, put the 4-5000 + whatever you sell them for and have a complete new start here.
at the moment things are a good price here (3 years ago it wasn't the case) - with a few exceptions.
Other things have also changed, Amazon, Picsmania and many other web based companies deliver here so again you can get a good deal - at the moment Picsmania are cheaper for tv's in Portugal than for the same item in the UK.
Guarantees are better here - 2 years as standard.

Regarding electrical stuff -if you do bring it , everything works here, just cut off the old plug and put Portuguese plugs on - the transformers have a limited life, often buz, often get hot, an more importanly don't earth properly.
1 major item than you might have problems with - light fittings - you can't buy bayonet type bulbs here.

Best of luck - Portugals great

[canoeman]

And if you go down the route of using 3 to 2 pin adaptors bring a good UK fuses nearly impossible to get here.

[David Kerr]

Thanks for the info and advice.

Just weighing up time and cost of containers v land transport

Nice idea to sell all and buy new but in reality that is not going to happen

Looks like I shall be changing lots of plugs.

[markatron]

Try movingquotecompare dot com you can get a few quotes just by filling out a quick form so you can see what the best prices are. Hopefully should save you some time and money.

[David Kerr]

Thanks for the website markatron.

I have had a good response already