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About us

Ana and Alastair Leithead Spross settled in this very special part of Portugal after spending years living and working across Asia, Africa and the Americas. 


For Ana it’s a homecoming – her father’s family originates from the Alentejo – and she has returned after years travelling the world as a diplomat. 


Alastair has spent nearly 20 years as a BBC foreign correspondent, covering stories across the globe, and is now a freelance writer and filmmaker, currently writing about Portuguese wine and chronicling their change of life through a blog while discovering Portugal with an outsider’s eyes. 


Afraid they would miss the interesting people and stories they met around the world, Ana and Al are building a small off the grid bed and breakfast lodge to bring adventurous visitors to their door. 

They are discovering Portuguese wines – especially those from the Alentejo – by creating a podcast on their journey from trying new grapes to learning how to grow them. 


And they are learning to live in a remote and relatively unknown corner of Portugal. 

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