This next part of our London stories is meant to feel like our time there did; a lot of normal living, albeit in heightened circumstances, along with a smattering of…
London Bridge etc…: London 2024, Part 2
Right off the bat, we’ll tell you that we aren’t going to knock our stay in London down on a day-by-day, post-by-post experience. The whole point of wanting to spend…
London Calling: London 2024, Part 1
On John’s list of long-term goals (“bucket list” is too morbid for his taste) “living in one of “the great capitals” for a long stretch” rates very high. Not moving…
Cave Dining in Guimares
Our friends A&B have been raving about a meat-intensive utterly delicious restaurant in the hills just above Guimares. A bunch of us arranged cars and set out on a bit…
Look, Up In the Sky!: Alentejo 2024, Part 2
When we were about an hour away from Montimerso, John started having a problem. The problem was that the scenery was getting prettier and prettier. We both love Braga –…
Paradise Delayed: Alentejo 2024, Part 1
A long time ago (last year), in a galaxy far, far away (Braga), we planned to celebrate our anniversary by ticking an item off our not-quite-in-the-bucket list – visiting a…
Part 8b: Revisiting “Our Stuff is Now Their Stuff” – Results!
tl;dr: the managed seller auction pickup process is so easy, we could have left the house for the day. 2024 tl;dr: this is a factual account of how selling our…
Part 3. Tomorrow is Promised to No One
So, somewhere along the line, and this going back to a of couple years ago, (now almost 5!) I say aloud to my wife “I can’t get this one thought…
Amazing Amsterdam
“Time and tide waits for no man,” a phrase that comes to us from Geoffrey Chaucer – as one of the earliest documenters of travel and travellers, we’ll draft him…
Puttin’ On the Rijks
Our foray into bite-sized travel has been a success in a lot of ways. We’ve been to two cities we’ve never visited before, in two countries we’ve never visited before….
