Terrace Delights (and a Recipe for you!)
The driveway/parking lot of Quinta da Geia where we had a delightful lunch on the terrace a few days ago — and will return for one more meal before we leave on Sunday. Orange seems…
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Ruined beauties . . .
A few more photos from our daily walk to the village. Above and below, the ruins of a house built in the 18th century. And here’s a reminder that I shouldn’t romanticize too much. I…
View PostA Walk in the Country
Yesterday late afternoon we arrived at Quinta Moenda after a train-plane-automobile adventure of 8 or 9 hours to a very warm welcome from Josephine and Hans — and to find that we were invited to…
View Postcanals, bridges, aspirations
We’re now in gorgeously sunny Portugal — in the Beiras, a mountainous rural area. We sit by the pool listening to the birds symphonize (why yes, I did make that word up), the church bells…
View PostNot just for surfers, dude!
The Travel section in this weekend’s Globe and Mail carries Gemma Bowes’ feature on surfing holidays in Portugal’s Figueira da Foz(link is to The Guardian where the article first appeared) which we visited in 2008.…
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