I'm thinking a lot of our PTSD clients will be US based so trying to make the travel affordable would be something we would like to be able to help with
Oh, eyah. There are restrictins here sort of based on what was already on the land. Sometimes you need special permission to make the foundations of structures bigger than the originals, or to have more structures. Areas of Portugal are divided into cameras, and let me just warn you, the ease of getting permissions varies from camera to camera, @The Scoundrel.
Hence the Summertime fact finding mission Lotus/ We will probably be looking at building on what in the UK is called Brown Belt land. Land that has previously had commercial buildings on it
Cost of plane tickets totally depends on where in the US. Lisbon to NYC is probably the cheapest, and that depnds on time of year. Maybe as low as 600 euros if you're lucky/