The Galicia region of Spain was a natural extension of our trip to Portugal. We had read that the food was some of the best in Spain and that the scenery was fantastic. Galicia did not disappoint! Galicia, like the Brittany region of France, was settled by Celtic people very early on. The Celtic influence is still strongly felt in…
Month: August 2018
Nazare, Portugal: A Full Day
Our time in Nazare, Portugal was great. We only had one full day there and we made the most of it! We started with going to market, stopped off to watch sand soccer in an impromptu stadium on the beach, had a picnic lunch, hung out on the beach, took the funicular up to the Sitio for sunset (gorgeous!), came…
More Portugal: Continued Live
More Portugal Dave and I are now in the beach town of Nazare. We will stay here for two nights. After a lovely day at the beach yesterday, we enjoyed the Festas do Mar in Cascais at night. It was a beautiful night and I wore the outfit I bought at the market earlier in the day. As we walked…
Live from Portugal
We are in Portugal! After flying overnight and arriving in Lisbon at 4:35 local time, we picked up our rental car, fought rush hour traffic and got to Cascais only to discover that a fest was interfering with the route to our hotel. Needless to say, this was not ideal when working on only four hours of sleep. We ended…