Category: Living Here

We love to travel and have been fortunate to experience several very special trips again this year. But, no matter where we visit, we are always excited to return home to Portugal. We truly appreciate the life we have made Read more…

Old friends from the US met us in Madrid to spend ten days in southern Spain together. We took the high speed train from Madrid to Malaga then got our rental car. We spent a few days exploring the coast Read more…

We spent three amazing weeks exploring all the little corners of Chianti, Tuscany, and Umbria in Italy. While we had been to this part of Italy twice before, that was  12-15 years ago. Before retiring and moving overseas, all of Read more…

Fall was jam-packed with travel. We took two big tips with friends with only a few days of recovery in between. We started with an adventurous road trip slightly out of our comfort zone. We flew directly from Porto to  Read more…

Expecting a hot July, we planned a joint trip with family to more-temperate Scotland. We met up with a daughter, son-in-law, and two grandkids (9 & 11) for a couple (mostly sunny) days in Edinburgh. Then, we drove around the Read more…

Continuing a very full month of travel, we took off for a wild driving trip through the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy followed by a circle around Slovenia and then back into Italy with a quick stop in Venice, We Read more…

After a quiet winter in Porto, we were ready to travel again. We have many trips planned for 2024. We kicked it off with a special trip to celebrate a big anniversary. We took three weeks and visited five Greek Read more…

2023 was such a great year for us that we were sorry to see it end. However, I can think of no better way to celebrate the New Year than this. We spent a few glorious days on the beautiful Read more…

September was a bit crazy. We took two big trips with just a few days home in Porto in between them. We experienced weather extremes and saw and did a Lot. At the beginning of the month we went to Read more…

There are so many festivals in the small towns all across Portugal during the summer months that you could spend a lifetime trying to experience them all. We chose one this summer to see in the south central part of Read more…