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Off-grid and Entertaining in Portugal

Alastair Leithead

Despatches from a former BBC foreign correspondent now running an off-grid eco-luxe lodge on the Alentejo coast

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    Portugal trainee. Learning how to live off the grid in rural Alentejo after nearly 20 years as a BBC foreign correspondent. Collecting stories along the way.

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