This post was originally going to be about last week’s trip to the Azores Islands, specifically, São Miguel, the largest and most populated island. The weather is always milder in…
If you’ve been following along with us at all (and if you haven’t, this is a weird time to start but “hi!”) you have some idea of how we like…
tl; dr:/ Moves are hard, intracity or interstate. Moving internationally is the hardest of all. When we decided to move to Portugal, we thought we would just sell everything, get…
We are far from the only people writing about their traveling experiences or their new lives in Portugal. There’s practically a tradition of sharing your thoughts on moving here after…
For purists, the VSOE is not the “original” Orient Express which was a route, not a specific set of carriages. The first “Express d’Orient” left Paris enroute to Vienna on June…
This is primarily a post of pictures, because right after Lisa got sick with the ‘flu, so did John. We both spent the days in our room, which fortunately had…
There we are, all dressed up and ready to enjoy a meal created by Michelin-star chef, Jean Imbert. Imbert is new to Belmond, having joined them at the start of…
Imagine for a moment that you are stepping off a bus into an ordinary car park. Then, as you walk between a couple of delivery vans you see it: the…
The original subtitle for this series was “Trip Of a Lifetime” ( or “TOAL”) and, just to cut to the chase, that is an exact description of the journey from…
The title for today comes from a turn of phrase that’s popular in our household, used thusly: It’s not necessarily true that we came all this way just so we…
