We don’t have a lot of hard and fast rules in our marriage, but we have many moderately set guidelines, and one of these is that if our feet aren’t…
Rome puns! Who doesn’t love ’em? Anyway… by this point in the trip, I had my sea legs under me so I was ready to get out and about. Which…
A man alone in the city of Rome… summertime, when men and women dress for comfort rather than modesty. Yes, a fella could get up to a lot of hijinks…
If you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans. That’s what they say, right? (Don’t look it up, it’s a simultaneously deep and boring rabbit hole.) My darling…
Dinner time! You might have gotten the impression from our last few posts that we didn’t eat while we were in Évora; you probably didn’t, but who are we to…
We love living in Portugal; we really, really do. One thing we’re still getting used to is just how blasted hot it can get. (Yes, yes, people from Texas, it’s…
On our first day in the environs of Évora we were hitting up ancient stone arrangements that were by and large out in the middle of nowhere. We still had…
You may recall from an earlier set of posts that I got a serious crush on the Alentejo region when we visited. It was still spring time and everything was…
The services we render to our family and friends can run in all different kinds of ways: watch their cats. Water their plants. Help move a couch. I’ve done all…
In the popular zeitgeist the “Rocky Statue” is right at the top of the list of attractions in Philadelphia. Who doesn’t want to get their picture taken with a statue…
