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Welcome to the new Dusty Traveller site.

My name is Rosie, my partner is Kelvin and the latest addition to our family is Fagin, a beautiful German Shepherd stray of about a year old. We’ve called her Fagin because she is a little thief.

This site has been around for a few years now and was started as a travel diary whilst Kelvin, and I were searching for a new home.
We visited Bulgaria, but both felt it was  little too rough around the edges for a couple of old wrinklies. We spent 3 months travelling though Belize, Mexico and the USA, but both felt it was a little too far from Blighty and the grandkids.

We had just returned from the latter trip to a miserable summer in the UK , when a friend, living in Portugal, offered us a couple of weeks accommodation on Armona island, courtesy of his girlfriends granny.
Portugal was never on my list of places to move to. We had spent a holiday in Praia de Rocha once and I’d got scammed by a time share tout on my last day. I was so angry that I swore I would never return – although I did manage to get my own back in Bali but that’s another story.

Still, faced with  a couple of wet and windy weeks in the UK and not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth we decide to take up the offer and had a wonderful time. What a difference once you are away from the tourist resorts. Not that Armona Island isn’t a holiday place but it’s a Portuguese holiday place and for most of the time we were there it was deserted.

So that was how it all began . . . . sometimes you find what you are looking for when you least expect it!

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