We’ve been having ourselves a quiet holiday season so far. Unlike past years we haven’t really put on a shindig ourselves. A number of our friends have been out of…
A Quick Guide to Bacalhau
Portuguese love bacalhau (BAA-ka-lau, except that “lh” together means you give it kind of a “yuh” sound there in the middle) which is dried and salted codfish. It’s a staple…
Family Storybook: Why Didn’t You Eat?!
This post is part of a series called Family Storybook I’ve had an idea burbling in the back of my mind for awhile now, and since attending language classes has…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Overlook
We never went to the Space Needle until a visiting family member asked to see it. At one point we both worked approximately five minutes, on foot, from the base…
Tourists in Our Own Town, Downtown
We had company in our hometown! It’s admittedly difficult for people to just drop in, but thanks to a work thing that Lisa’s sister had in Lisbon, we got to…
Food & Wine: Castanhas Edition
We’re enjoying our first visitor (Hi C!) this week and it’s been a lot of firsts for us. You see, we’ve been terrible residents in Braga because we have done…
Practicing Our Ronrom
If you don’t follow us on regular-old facebook, you probably aren’t aware that we fostered cats for about a month this summer. It’s not a thing that we do regularly,…
Leeshz Bow Uh: Lisbon 2024
A careful reading of this humble blog might reveal some surprising, if not actually embarrassing, patterns in our travels. To wit: we’ve been visiting destinations in — let’s call it…
Pottery Mouth: Aveiro 2024, Part 3
This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2024 Our jaunt to Aveiro was a quickie this time; just a couple of days respite from the heat….
Keeping Our Cool: Aveiro 2024, Part 2
This post is part of a series called Aveiro – Summer 2024 You can’t stay for too long in Aveiro if you like to stay active – there definitely are…
