This post is part of a series called Evora 2025 Dinner time! You might have gotten the impression from our last few posts that we didn’t eat while we were…
You Get Used To It: Évora, Part 3
This post is part of a series called Evora 2025 We love living in Portugal; we really, really do. One thing we’re still getting used to is just how blasted…
Still Hot: Évora, Part 2
This post is part of a series called Evora 2025 On our first day in the environs of Évora we were hitting up ancient stone arrangements that were by and…
Hooooooooooot: Évora, Part 1
This post is part of a series called Evora 2025 You may recall from an earlier set of posts that I got a serious crush on the Alentejo region when…
Family Storybook: Bay What Now?
This post is part of a series called Family Storybook There are moments in life that get packaged into “A Tale” rather than just “a story”. You tell it practically…
Family Storybook: Finding our Apartment
This post is part of a series called Family Storybook There are moments in life that get packaged into “A Tale” rather than just “a story”. You tell it practically…
They Say the Lights Are Bright in Braga…
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…
