Day 8 – Santiago de Compostela
We escaped Porto this morning with only a SNAFU at the parking garage – the payment machine didn’t give us […]
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Portugal & Spain 2019
Porto – Day 7
At first, as we set out on our walking tour this morning, one day in Porto seemed awfully short. But
Day 6 – Aveiro & Porto
Today was a day on the road, first to the canal town of Aveiro and then on to Porto. Driving,
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Day 5 – Sortelha, Monsanto & Belmonte
A three-fer today: Three castles plus a Roman ruins site for good measure. Then, dinner with the locals – all
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Day 4 – Fatima & Belmonte
The closest either of us has ever come to being Catholic was the 18 years we spent as a Minnesota
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Day 3 – Belem
Today’s mission: explore Lisbon by Hop-On/Hop-Off bus and visit Belem, including the Tower of Belem and other points of interest
Day 2 – Sintra
A more relaxed day so far (we haven’t yet had dinner). We walked about 15 minutes to our meeting point
Day 1 – Lisbon: What Could Go Wrong?
Some would argue today was a disaster, at least it started that way: In Philadelphia instead of going to the
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Here We Go Again
We have the travel itch again and this time we’re scratching it with a road trip through Portugal, northern Spain