As I’ve mentioned many times, Portugal has been on strict lockdown (ie. only grocery stores and pharmacies open and only […]


As I’ve mentioned many times, Portugal has been on strict lockdown (ie. only grocery stores and pharmacies open and only […]

I realized that when I posted the last blog about our Sunday hikes, I didn’t include some great photos Steffen […]

On Monday this week we drove 30 minutes east to Albufeira, still on the Algarve coast in Portugal. Since the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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