The Meek family’s tale of swapping work and school for a year of UK adventures with their kids encouraged readers to share their own experiences – and opinionsWe took a decision to sell up and crawl to Portugal in 1999 when our kids were three and five years old. We’d both been working tough and hadn’t spent as much time with our kids as we would believe liked. Our first child had died at five months old. We chose to rent an apartment in Lisbon. Our kids were thrown in at the deep end in a Portuguese convent kindergarten. They were both speaking almost fluent Portuguese after approximately four-five months. It was a complete change in lifestyle,food, culture, and language and climate that we experienced together – something that bonds us to this day. It was an adventure,exciting, enriching and something everyone should do whether they believe the guts and the wherewithal to do it.
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Source: theguardian.com