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Continue reading →: The Murals of LyonLyon France has the second most murals of any European city only to Berlin. They pop up out of seemingly nowhere as you turn a corner or wander into a square. “Wow, look at that one.” They depict common scenes or historical figures important to the city and they are…
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Continue reading →: Travel Blogging During WartimeAs we pack and prep to leave for an extended trip, we do so with mixed emotions. Two weeks ago, I wrote about some of them, but they were solely inwardly focused. This weekend, they are more outwardly so. With the flames of war sparked by an invasion on the…
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Continue reading →: Super Bowl MondayLiving 5 hours ahead of the east coast of the US, 7 hours from our other home and 8 hours from our westernmost family can make it tricky to navigate keeping in touch. It definitely involves some planning and results in some inbound middle of the night texts which we…
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Continue reading →: And So It Begins…When I think back a few years, pre COVID and during our full-time-work lives, many winter Sundays were spent thinking about what we do now. When we aren’t working a project, we live overseas, we study foreign languages and we research, prep and prepare to travel. Those many Sundays, which…
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Continue reading →: COVID LandsI guess COVID will find us all, eventually. We’ve been two of the most careful people you could be: truly hunkered and isolated (we could work remotely and really limit outside interactions during the first year of COVID), triple vaxxed, always masked when indoors, eating at home or outside when…
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Continue reading →: International Travel in COVID TimesInternational travel can be stressful in the best of times, even before COVID was a daily household word. For those who have yet to travel internationally since the pandemic started (we’ve just completed our third transatlantic journey) it can be confusing, frustrating and nerve wracking. What paperwork is necessary? Will…
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Continue reading →: The Assisted BuffetIt’s been a bit since we’ve logged anything particularly interesting enough to blog about. Back in the US of A for a few months, we’ve mostly been catching up with friends, enjoying unseasonably warm Colorado weather, complete with some Christmas week golf, and attending to medical and dental needs while…
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Continue reading →: Homeward BoundAs we prepare to return to the US for several weeks to catch up with friends and family and on medical appointments and take care of some affairs there’s a lot to reflect on over four months in Portugal. First, this is the longest time either of us have ever…
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Continue reading →: Consider PortugalBy Melissa It’s a long story, but the long and short of it is that we bought an apartment in Portugal in May of 2019 with a plan of using it as a home base for European travel and that farther afield. We left our full-time jobs and moved into…
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Continue reading →: The Table Was SetAt Monverde Wine Experience Hotel which rests adjacent to the small village of Telões amidst vineyards and surrounded by chestnut and oak trees and groves of eucalyptus, the table was set. At first light, roosters crow from across the hilltops announcing the arrival of sun. Cool late September mornings give…
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