I haven’t updated the blog in a few weeks because we have been on strict lockdown here in Portugal, similar […]


I haven’t updated the blog in a few weeks because we have been on strict lockdown here in Portugal, similar […]

On Tuesday we headed out on an afternoon hike along the coast, and I’m so glad we did! We had […]

As I mentioned, we had heard Portugal was headed toward lockdown so we wanted to do a few things as […]

When we arrived on January 10th, our landlord let us know that Portugal was likely headed into lockdown by the […]

We arrived at our next stop last Sunday afternoon and have really been enjoying it. The house is lovely and […]

Last week was our last week in Nazaré and there were some ups and downs. We started school again after […]

One of Steffen’s Christmas presents was a sailboat tour on the Tagus River in Lisbon that I (again) found through […]

There is another well-known monastery near Nazaré, Alcobaça Monastery, that I wanted to visit so we headed out Sunday morning […]

On Saturday morning we took a quick trip to a nearby monastery, Batalha Monastery. We had actually tried to go […]

We spent New Year’s Eve as (hopefully) everyone around the world did: at home, just the six of us. We […]