Nazare, Costa Nova, & Aveiro, Portugal Day 4

Nazare, Costa Nova, & Aveiro, Portugal Day 4

Colin has been wanting to go to Nazare and see the big waves everyone in the surfing world is talking about. This little village on Portugal’s Silver Coast is home to some of the biggest waves in the world. You wouldn’t have known it today because it was...
Cascais, Sintra, & Obidos, Portugal Day 3

Cascais, Sintra, & Obidos, Portugal Day 3

We said adeus! to Lisbon and bom dia! to Cascais today. It was a beautiful and sunny day and we were at Pescadores beach for some kayaking by 9am. It was fun to be out with the fishermen who were gathering their catches for the day. After paddling from the Pescadores...
Lisbon, Portugal Days 1 & 2

Lisbon, Portugal Days 1 & 2

We made it into Lisbon just in time to check in at our hotel and leave our bags with the front desk before running back out and catching a cab to Jardim da Estrela to meet our food tasting tour guide. Somehow we were only two minutes late! It was 4:30 in the afternoon...
Portugal, My Heart

Portugal, My Heart

Colin and I arrived in Portugal today, beginning a journey that has a lot of meaning and is sort of like a new beginning to me. Having been born to parents who seemed to be searching for something in life that was beyond anything I understood, there were a lot of...
House Update – Masonry

House Update – Masonry

When I first wrote about our new home project, I explained that we had originally planned on using white brick but it turned out that it wasn’t available and we had decided to go in a different direction. We looked at different natural stones and eventually...