A Portuguese Village Bar

The last section of our drive back from Guarda the other day was along a fairly small road through the mountains (around 1500 M), the twists and turns along the precipitous edge of the slopes…

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A 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…

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London walking

Pater and I have evolved a travelling style that suits us but which makes us the target of family jokes — we walk and walk and walk. Then we walk some more. Rarely do we…

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And we’re off . . .

OMG, you’ll be thinking, won’t she ever just get on the plane and fly, already! But our flight is not until late this afternoon — 5 p.m.! — so I have time to get a…

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Milestone . . .

My “bourgeois heroism” has run smack into the limitations of my immune system and I’ve been sleeping as much as possible trying to get rid of this cold/potential sinus infection since Thursday, given that we…

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