Sometimes we have to make hard choices. Like ice cream or gelato. Beaches or mountains. Lisbon or Porto. Portugal has fast become one of my favorite countries in Europe, and Lisbon and Porto are…
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Where do you travel in the winter? Finding a great place to spend a winter holiday seems to be one of the hardest decisions for us. The options seem to be to 1) Embrace the…
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We’ve dealt with our fair share of crazy roads and bad traffic after five years in Los Angeles, but there were still some adjustments to make for a road trip through the countryside of…
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If I had to sum up the coast of Ireland in only a few words, I’d use rugged, raw, and absolutely stunning. The western Irish coast is the first land mass hit by the…
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I haven’t met a person yet who hasn’t loved Portugal. From the first day I was there last October, I knew it was a place I wanted to spend a lot more time. The…
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The colorful hill town of Sintra boasts three palaces, an old Moorish Castle, a gothic mansion, and miles of forested hiking paths. It easily makes my list of the places you can’t miss when…
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You can hardly walk a block in Lisbon without passing a bakery or pastry shop. To say the Portuguese like their sweets is a bit of understatement, which means we fit right in. 🙂…
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While you may have booked a trip to Santorini for the white cave houses, infinity pools and sunsets of Oia, the resort town and the black sand beach in Perissa is the perfect place to…
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Santorini is what sunset dreams are made of. And while you may have been drawn to Santorini for white cave houses stacked on the edge of the caldera and the deep blues of the…
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If we got to pick one country in Europe to explore for another month, it would probably be Italy. But, since most of us are working with limited time and budgets, we have to…
