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Continue reading →: Um almoço estranhoIt was a very warm Saturday afternoon. Not hot by global standards this summer, but warmer than we’d experienced for a while. We had a reservation for two at two at a sushi restaurant we’d wanted to check out for a while. Maybe it was the heat. Maybe the perseid…
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Continue reading →: Spoons and BeersBy Melissa We’re back! After 18 long Covid-induced months of absence, we returned to our new home in Cascais, Portugal. We bought our apartment in May of 2019. We were still working full time so were not able to return until November. We spent two months getting settled then headed…
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Continue reading →: Quiet in AlfamaLast week, we ventured into Lisbon proper (aside from being at the airport, we’ve only skirted through the outskirts since returning) to meet a friend for lunch and to check out some tile for a remodel project we have underway. We went to the Alfama neighborhood for both. And it…
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Continue reading →: Fala inglês? Desculpe não.After a 13 month delay, we returned to Portugal a couple of weeks ago and hit the ground running using the Portuguese we’ve worked so hard at over the past 18 months or so. While we aren’t nearly fluent and still have a hard time with words out of context…
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Continue reading →: Flying back to Europe in COVID timesLast weekend, we returned to Europe. We left a country where, at least in places, things really seem back to normal to arrive in one where COVID cases are surging and lockdowns are being imposed – in certain areas like Lisbon and the Algarve: no restaurants open after 3pm, curfews…
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Continue reading →: Backing awayAfter a couple of stops on the eastern seaboard to visit family and friends for the first time in a long, long while, we prepare to both physically and mentally back away. Physically, from the US and our familiar pandemic routines and what we know to be expectations of what…
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Continue reading →: So long RockiesAs we prepare to head across the pond, return to Portugal and meet our annual visa requirements, I took a break from work to ascend into the Rocky Mountains one last time before departing. I got lucky with a break in the unusually hot weather in the mountains choosing a…
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Continue reading →: BittersweetAs the summer creeps into Colorado, we prepare to leave it for Portugal. We’ve waited so long to be able to leave, but also waited so long to be with our friends and celebrate the coming end of a once in a century (hopefully) pandemic. We just feel back and…
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Continue reading →: Fourteen MonthsFourteen months lost. Fourteen months of too much death, sickness and bad news. Fourteen months of lockdown. Fourteen months of socializing by computer, mostly. Fourteen months of meals in. And then there’s now…. hope and return. As two fully vaccinated people we finally broke out of the bubble, socialized in…
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Continue reading →: A Shot in the ArmA little over a week ago, I became eligible in the state of Colorado for the COVID vaccine (Melissa, being a hospital employee was eligible earlier this year). That day, I was able to find an appointment for this past week and my first shot of the Pfizer vaccine is…
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