(Full credit to Lisa for coming up with the post title while we walked the city today. We were walking the walls of Old Derry and reading the signs. Lisa…
Thrills! Chills! Spills! … Honestly, what kind of trip would that be for two people in their 50s visiting ancient burial sites? The new Jumanji sequel? No, we had your…
Our third day in Belfast dawned bright and sunny. Again. Funny thing about the weather here; it has been gorgeously sunny and 26ish and all the locals here have been…
We woke up, feeling much closer to normal people after both going to bed and waking up at reasonable hours. Normal start or no, we decided to give breakfast a…
We’re beginning another stretch of traveling! So much so that if we keep to our intended publishing schedule we’re going to be talking about October in February of ’23 or…
Since we’re between trips at the moment, let’s turn the Wayback Machine towards the fall of 2021. Anyone who knows me won’t be surprised that when we started to get…
Our second day in Aveiro could have gone a couple of different ways. There is a (purportedly) fantastic museum/shop dedicated to local ceramics manufacturing, a craft for which Lisa has…
I’m not sure how much our readers know about Celsius temperatures, so here’s a good rule of thumb: if it sounds right above freezing in Fahrenheit, it’s $*&@ing hot in…
As you may have read, American immigration to Portugal is expanding rapidly. While we still don’t rate as one of the largest immigrant populations (Brazilians are far and away the…
As I was writing last week’s post, I found myself going down a bit of a rabbit hole on a related topic: doing laundry while traveling. Our ability to pack…
