The Van Table

Pull up a chair. The van table is an unedited podcast about life changing decisions from a pub landlord to van life, family, Portugal, Scotland, food, Business and our adventure building a new life. We bought a mountain in Portugal and then 2 years later decided to sell everything and move there. That was the plan or so we thought!

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  Episode #5

  Can You Really Buy a House in Portugal for €20,000?

  Aug 17, 202650 minS1

  <p>Can you really buy a house in Portugal for €20,000? Yes. But finding a cheap property is only the beginning.</p><p>In Episode 5 of The Van Table, Alison and I talk about what we’ve learned from actually buying property in rural Portugal, including our mountain and our village house.</p><p>We talk about €8,000 houses, €12,000 ruins, an €18,000 shop with three floors above it, where cheap Portuguese properties actually turn up, and why getting to know people locally can completely change what you find.</p><p>Then there’s the bit that doesn’t normally make the property videos: what happens a...

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  Episode #4

  Van Life, Bad Ideas & Going Back To Portugal

  Aug 16, 202642 minS1

  <p>Is van life actually cheaper? What happens when six people live in a Mercedes Sprinter, and just how many unfinished projects can one family accumulate?</p><p>David and Alison are back around The Van Table in the Scottish Highlands, talking about the reality of van life with four kids, the cost of living on the road, Starlink, solar power, Scotland versus Portugal and the growing graveyard of brilliant ideas that are definitely still going to happen.</p><p>There’s also an Aldi milk frother, water-pistol interruptions, a leaking tap, hundreds of olive trees, plans to find water on...

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  Episode #3

  She Made Me Buy A Mountain - In Portugal

  Aug 15, 202649 minS1

  <p>This time Alison joins me at The Van Table to tell her side of the story.</p><p>After selling our houses, selling the pub and buying a mountain in Portugal, we’ve spent the last few years trying to work out what comes next. In this episode we talk about how we ended up buying the mountain, what we were actually looking for, the decisions we made along the way and whether Alison really did make me buy it.</p><p>We’re recording from our temporary static caravan in the Scottish Highlands, where we’re spending the summer...

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  Episode #2

  Why We Bought a Mountain in Portugal

  Aug 7, 202639 minS1

  <p>Why on earth would anyone sell everything and buy a mountain in Portugal?</p><p>In this episode of The Van Table, I tell the story of how Alison and I went looking for a small piece of land with a few trees… and somehow came home with around 100 acres of Portuguese mountainside stretching all the way down to the river.</p><p>It wasn’t the plan.</p><p>We talk about:</p>🌿 Why Portugal beat Italy🏔️ The moment we knew we’d found the place🚙 The terrifying 4x4 drive to the property💰 How we actually afforded it🌳 Olive trees, springs, w...

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  Episode #1

  From Pub Landlord to Van Life | The Van Table Ep.1

  Aug 3, 202627 minS1

  <p># From Pub Landlord to Van Life | The Van Table Ep.1</p><p>Welcome to The Van Table.</p><p>Pull up a chair.</p><p>I'm David, and this is where we chat about van life, family, Portugal, Scotland, work, ideas, the occasional disaster, and whatever else ends up on the table.</p><p><br></p><p>In this first episode, I talk about the journey from running pubs to living in a campervan, why we chose this life, what we've learned along the way, and where we're hoping it takes us next.</p><p><br></p><p>There...

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