June 26, 2022 After swooning over the basilica and palace in Mafra, we headed north towards Óbidos, a distance of about 45 miles. (We neve...

  June 26, 2022 We hadn't had a car in Lisbon, and we were very glad about that. Parking would have been impossible, not to mention navi...

  June 25, 2022 During the Covid pandemic, Bob somehow got into birding. I'm still not sure how it happened. He has always loved wildlif...

  June 24, 2022 We had a little extra time before dinner and decided to visit something that was on our "B List" for Lisbon: the N...

  June 24, 2022      As we were walking up the never-ending hill to the Lisbon Cathedral, we approached the restaurant we had discovered by ...

  June 24, 2022 After our morning at the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery, we got an Uber to take us to the Gulbenkian Art Museum.  A wor...

June 24, 2022 Borrowing the idea from history's Seven Wonders of the World, Portugal decided in the early 2000s to come up with the Seve...