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What is home?

During my time as receptionist I get to know some nice people from the U.K. that were working here in Portugal for the week and at weekend’s they went back home, to their families.
They do it for months, so were it is really home for them? The hotels were they live 5 days a week or their houses back in the U.K. were they only stay the weekend?

Some of them, a few months after living like this started to look different to our country, and started to feel at HOME, I knew some that left the hotel because they bought their own house (home) here in Portugal and their families moved to Portugal as well, others bought houses here and started a new family with Portuguese people and a few went back to the U.K.

Home is were the heart is, is were you feel comfortable and welcome, were you can live in peace with love and feel good, really good in it!! It may be a house, a city or a country...doesn’t matter if you spend the whole week or only the weekend there. These people that I’ve got the chance to know they just follow their heart and settle down, or moved back home because…HOME IS WERE THE HEART IS!!!


Let me say that some of those that are living here in Portugal used to come back to the hotel to go to the bar, to do their laundry or to eat at the restaurant, I think that is because during the time that they spend there, they feel at home and it was like if us , the employees, were like family to them…that is just why I’m going to come back to work at the hotel, because there is this connection between the employees and the guest which is great!!



silvia d.