One thing you will see in every single souvenir shop in Portugal is a rooster. It isn’t just any rooster, either, it is of a very particular and ornate design. The rooster is seen on nearly everything that can hold the image of the rooster (magnets, oven mitts, pins, keychains, …
I have now been in Portugal for several days, and I have some random wisdom to share.
I have become a believer in traveling very light when flying internationally. I can usually get by with one carry-on piece of luggage and a decent-sized under-seat bag, even when traveling for a couple weeks at a time. That means I usually only have four or five changes of clothes. …
We had an amazing food day today, in Lisbon and Sintra! Breakfast at The Folks in Lisbon: Turkish eggs (poached eggs in yogurt), French toast with berries, tiramisu latte Lunch at Paco Real in Sintra: mushroom risotto, gigantic beers, and the most perfectly cooked octopus I have ever encountered. It …
The second half of the day, after our lunch, was spent at the Pena Palace, a stunning building that sits atop a small mountain over Sintra. It is an eye-catching Romanticist collection of towers and walls, with huge sections painted school bus yellow or rich, carmine red. Ornate carvings cover …
Today was the first day that Fes and I met up with “the rest of our group”, aka the folks we would be sailing with on the following day. Our group is a College of Curiosity travel group, who get together to do travel (usually cruises) a couple times per …
