The trip is starting to have a theme… a not entirely pleasant one, unfortunately. We’ll be having a lovely time, and then hit a pretty serious bump. We regroup, we…

(Full credit to Lisa for coming up with the post title while we walked the city today. We were walking the walls of Old Derry and reading the signs. Lisa…

Thrills! Chills! Spills! … Honestly, what kind of trip would that be for two people in their 50s visiting ancient burial sites? The new Jumanji sequel? No, we had your…

We woke up, feeling much closer to normal people after both going to bed and waking up at reasonable hours. Normal start or no, we decided to give breakfast a…

We’re beginning another stretch of traveling! So much so that if we keep to our intended publishing schedule we’re going to be talking about October in February of ’23 or…

I’m not sure how much our readers know about Celsius temperatures, so here’s a good rule of thumb: if it sounds right above freezing in Fahrenheit, it’s $*&@ing hot in…

As you may have read, American immigration to Portugal is expanding rapidly. While we still don’t rate as one of the largest immigrant populations (Brazilians are far and away the…

(Sometimes there just isn’t a clever title to be had.) Day 3, and we’re really starting to feel the press of constant travel. Well, Lisa’s constant travel. She had been…

The 2nd day of our London trip was only nominally in London. Up relatively early for breakfast, we made a couple of local tube connections to Paddington Station, thence bound…

The ice cream, that is. Growing up, “neapolitan ice cream” was a thing. Maybe it still is? Three stripes of mediocre ice cream: chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. I feel like…