Alex Sully

I didn't arrive with a plan. I arrived with a car, a tent and caravan and a decision I couldn't fully explain to anyone — including myself. Seven years ago I left a senior retail career in the UK. Good salary. Good title. None of it fit anymore. I sold what I could. Packed what I couldn't. Drove south to Portugal towing a caravan My first piece of land 1 hectare cost €8,000. Another €2,000 for solar, so I had power. A tent, then a caravan too as it was acceptable by the junta in the area of...

Redirected: Why I’m Writing a PhD About the Moment Everything Changes By Alexander Peter Sully | June 2026 ----- Most people don’t expect a man who spent his first year in Portugal living in a tent to end up submitting a doctoral thesis to a Lisbon university. Neither did I. But seven years of living off-grid, coaching people through radical life transitions, and watching 152,000 people in an online community all grappling with the same terrifying decision — whether to leave their old life...

Portugal is the most extraordinary country I’ve ever lived in. The land is wild and ancient. Food is honest. People are warm. Strangers wave from tractors. Old men give you tomatoes over the wall. Neighbours turn up with bread when the fire’s out.