Comments for The Ramble https://the-ramble.net Lisa and John and the world. Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:14:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Comment on Cork It! A look at one of Portugal’s “signature” exports by Sharon https://the-ramble.net/2025/09/15/cork-it-a-look-at-one-of-portugals-signature-exports/#comment-9402 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:14:55 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=5043#comment-9402 Well, ok, but a hectare is more than double the size of an acre.
Just emphasizes your point of a lot of land dedicated to cork!

]]> Comment on Hooooooooooot: ร‰vora, Part 1 by Lisa Mc Sherry https://the-ramble.net/2025/06/03/hooooooooooot-evora-part-1/#comment-3934 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 03:59:30 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=4983#comment-3934 In reply to Liz.

There is an Iron Age site not too far outside of Braga! Absolutely worth a visit. And up in Viana do Castelo there is Citania de Santa Luzia, which we wrote about: https://the-ramble.net/2022/03/08/in-country-the-north-of-portugal-part-1. Save Evora’s delights for winter when you want a dose of sunshine, or Spring for glorious fields of wildflowers. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> Comment on Hooooooooooot: ร‰vora, Part 1 by Liz https://the-ramble.net/2025/06/03/hooooooooooot-evora-part-1/#comment-3750 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:02:15 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=4983#comment-3750 I loved Evora when we visited in October 2022, but agree that it’s far too hot to live in that area! Definitely interested in checking out some of the ancient sites in the area (probably while we twiddle our thumbs waiting for residency cards), so I’m looking forward to more details of this trip!

]]> Comment on Not A Creature Is Stirring… by Liz https://the-ramble.net/2024/12/30/not-a-creature-is-stirring/#comment-1269 Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:11:13 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=4701#comment-1269 Feliz Ano Novo! I always enjoy tagging along on your adventures and am looking forward to the day we’ll be able to join you in Braga (hopefully within the year – plans are buckling down and getting serious now!)

]]> Comment on Eating our Fill, continued: London 2024, Part 8 by Lisa Mc Sherry https://the-ramble.net/2024/09/09/eating-our-fill-continued-london-2024-part-8/#comment-1071 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:31:12 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=4286#comment-1071 In reply to Liz.

IMO, missing a food is not enough of a reason to not make the jump. ๐Ÿ™‚ We just learn to make foods on our own. Teriyaki sauce is available here, and grills (or, in our case, a grill pan). It’s not *quite* the same, but close enough. What’s harder are the foods you can’t re-create. Not to be a downer, but PNW/ Alaskan wild salmon is at the top of that list for us. (It’s all Norwegian and farmed. It’s not bad, but its not the same thing.) For me, filet mignon has been a real let down everywhere in Europe. Sweet corn.

]]> Comment on Eating our Fill, continued: London 2024, Part 8 by Liz https://the-ramble.net/2024/09/09/eating-our-fill-continued-london-2024-part-8/#comment-1055 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:52:52 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=4286#comment-1055 Talking about interesting food places is never a whoops! Have made note of several of your recommendations, particularly the Japanese restaurant. I expect that Seattle-style teriyaki is going to be one of the few cuisines we miss once we make the move to Europe (though we won’t miss it enough to not make the jump!).

]]> Comment on Part 6. When Do We Leave? by John https://the-ramble.net/2024/06/03/part-6-when-do-we-leave/#comment-937 Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:20:18 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=2285#comment-937 In reply to Kris.

Kris, I have no idea if you’ll see this with so much time passing. First of all, I’m *so* sorry that we missed your comment back in the day (so to speak). We aren’t inundated with replies so I don’t know how that happened. Sorry about that.

May I ask how you have progressed? So much has changed in the world, you could be anywhere at all. Hope for the best for you in any case!

]]> Comment on Part 3. Tomorrow is Promised to No One by John https://the-ramble.net/2024/05/06/part-3-tomorrow-is-promised-to-no-one/#comment-925 Sun, 12 May 2024 13:07:34 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=2238#comment-925 In reply to Tony Kusuma.

100%!

We are aware of the tremendous privilege we have of being able to get off the worker-drone hamster wheel (John never met a metaphor he couldn’t mangle), but since we could – we did. Thank goodness! (And, all age jokes aside, the picture was even better for me than for Lisa since we’re a few years apart. I technically moved here in my 40s(!))

]]> Comment on Part 3. Tomorrow is Promised to No One by Tony Kusuma https://the-ramble.net/2024/05/06/part-3-tomorrow-is-promised-to-no-one/#comment-922 Fri, 10 May 2024 12:36:14 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=2238#comment-922 My dad always told me that, in order to travel, we need three things, our health, time, and money. When we’re young, we have our health and (hopefully) time, but not money. Then we worked, and worked, and worked. By the time we have enough money, sometimes we no longer our health or (sadly) time. That is why when our “Kevin” (whose name is “Casey”) gave us the green light to retire, we started the moving to Portugal process the following week, and submitted our retirement notice 4 months later. No regrets, no looking back. Maybe one regret, we should’ve done it sooner ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> Comment on Part 1. Can We Do This? by John https://the-ramble.net/2024/04/22/part-1-can-we-do-this/#comment-917 Sun, 05 May 2024 21:21:24 +0000 https://the-ramble.net/?p=2011#comment-917 In reply to Anna Hale.

Thanks, Anna. ๐Ÿ™‚

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