We have been in Braga for more than three years now, and it’s safe to say that our blind dart throw of a location selection process has been a bullseye….
There are moments in life that get packaged into “A Tale” rather than just “a story”. You tell it practically the same way each time you share it, and you…
Hey all, some family things have come up and we’re a bit distracted. We’re taking a week off from posting to get caught up and organized again. See you next…
A big motivation for this trip was to experience a classic English Christmas, thereby checking off several things on Lisa’s To Do list. (Which is like a Bucket List, but…
Our “reason” for going to London was primarily to see the “Poets and Lovers” exhibit at The National Gallery — the first major exhibition of Van Gogh’s work there since…
One of the habits we’ve been trying to break is our tendency to go to our old favorites, revisiting favorite places throughout the world rather than branching out and trying…
… not even a couple of mostly retired bloggers. It’s the end of 2024, at least one of us is nursing a cold, and we’re settling back in after a…
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…
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…
I’ve had an idea burbling in the back of my mind for awhile now, and since attending language classes has kept us a little more pinned down than usual this…
