
There were hordes of people in Oporto. I mean hordes. Germans and Brits and French and Spanish and at least one Estonian, we know because she told us so in very good English; and I’m sure there were other nationalities…
There were hordes of people in Oporto. I mean hordes. Germans and Brits and French and Spanish and at least one Estonian, we know because she told us so in very good English; and I’m sure there were other nationalities…
Last month, when my sister visited, we took a personal tour of the Arrábida natural park with Nuno Duarte. He is very professional and also has a big heart. This is his story of an encounter with an abandoned baby…
It’s been several weeks now since we took a bus from Sintra to Cascais to stay with Jules, Rita’s traveling companion and President You-Know-Who’s personally appointed ambassador to the International Animal Kingdom. After being in Sintra, Cascais felt like…
A couple weeks ago, we took a train to Lisbon and transferred to another for the half hour ride to Sintra. For those unfamiliar with Portugal, Sintra is a town on a mountain between Lisbon and the ocean, whose climate,…
We’re finally emerging from the physical and mental cavern that is winter. In Portugal, winter is the rainy season. For two months, our whole world sits under a somber gray blanket of rain. Our sleep at night is disturbed by…
Feliz Natal! That’s Happy Christmas to all you un-Portuguese speakers. The holiday season in a foreign country. I keep thinking it ought to feel stranger than it does. We won’t be doing anything in particular on Christmas because we don’t…
Here it is the fourth entry into this blog and we’ve already gone three weeks without a post. We were distracted… Where we’ve been all this time is a long-planned driving tour of the Southwest, covering an estimated 2000 miles…
Driving the scenic highway, US 36/Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, restrain yourself from stopping at the first few scenic overlooks. Do one or two of them, but don’t dawdle going up the mountain. The reason is that the…
Come play with us as we prepare for our nomadic lifestyle. Once anchored by possessions and a couple of businesses (see About), we now own nothing but a 12-year-old Saturn and some sufficient retirement accounts. After a short stint in Denver,…