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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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Continue reading →: Braga: Small but MightyBy Melissa As we approached Braga, I was nervous. Our tour of Central and Northern Portugal has been very fast paced for us. We like to meander, but have spent the past week in a near constant state of movement, the routine being: wake up, eat bread, ham and cheese…
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Continue reading →: 20 Years On, Never ForgetTwenty years ago this week, the United States laid witness to and victim of a horrific terror attack on its soil. Nearly all of the world united in outrage and brotherhood in its anguish for the victims and anger towards the cowards who piloted airplanes into office buildings killing thousands…
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Continue reading →: Casting Amidst the GrapesIt began as an ordinary Saturday evening at a wine hotel in Portugal. You know, average, gorgeous wine hotel on a beautiful former estate. Pretty and all but ho hum… boring but pleasant. Just food, wine, sunsets and stars to entertain. The sun setting over the meticulously manicured rows of…
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