Ana Pereira kindly speaks to us about her experience as a Portugese nurse living and working in Dublin.

What did you first do when you came to Ireland?
When I first came to Ireland I had the interview first and it was pretty easy.I have been working in the hospital for one month now and everyone is really friendly and they give us really good backup at the hospital. Even my housemates!

The agenda was a busy one on this fifth trip to Portugal for Eileen and myself. Unusually we were flying into Porto this occasion whereas in the past it had been Lisbon as our first stop. Our trip was to take in Coimbra, Lisbon and finally back to Porto itself for the Friday. On our previous visit we had also visited Braga, which has been described as the ‘Rome of Portugal’ and indeed, the architecture and history of that place were simply stunning.