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Natural Wine Disaster

After breakfast we walked uphill past the National Pantheon (which house’s Portugal’s “major historical celebrities” I kid you not, that’s what it is, not a place of worship, and that’s the language used to describe it) to a Saturday market…

All the Styles

A beautiful warm morning in Lisbon.  Friday in mid-November so all the tourists are off to the Pena Palace.  Why not join them?  After breakfast we headed off to Sintra; we walked to the Rossio station where we caught a…

TMI

Wednesday rain.  Drizzle, then a lot of drizzle, then wind, then rain and wind, then drizzle again, back and forth and up and down and just consistent enough to make tourism miserable.   We walked from the hotel across the…

Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

“Can I have it on the good foot?”  Woof, what a day for walking this was… Breakfast is included so we had one of those elaborate hotel breakfasts usually served buffet style, but served to us, fruit and fruit juice,…

Alicia Through the Looking Glass

Bright and early out of the hotel to CDG.  Terminal train transit two stops to Terminal 2.  Checked in at 2F.  Boarding pass, processed luggage, went to pass security, then informed I was meant to check-in at 2G.  If it’s…

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