Obrigada means thank you in Portuguese if you are a woman – men say Obrigado . We hear it often and try to say it many times in a day. We have found the Portuguese people to be welcoming, friendly, kind and proud of their country and it’s bounties. And bounties there are many. We…
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Tavira, Portugal.
We are tucked in to our Airbnb apartment in Tavira in the Algarve of Portugal. Jim went for a shave this morning to the barber right down the street and the barber told him that they think of Canada to United States like they think of Portugal to Spain.People are quieter and calmer here than…
Goodbye Spain – Hello Portugal
Looking back over the first two weeks of our adventure feels a little surreal. We are over 7600 kilometres from home. We have toured three cities in three different regions of Spain; Barcelona in Catalonia, Valencia in the Valencia Region and Sevilla in Andalusia. We have learned that there is as much difference in the…
Hammam Experience – last day Morocco
It is our last day in Tangiers – our travel day. We will fly on our 1/2 hour flight back to Seville, pick up the luggage that we stored with kind Rosa – where we will spend the night. Rosa has an Airbnb room in her house that we booked just for the night as…
Beautiful Morocco
I can’t say “the best day” again because it’s getting embarrassing but today really, really was a special day. Especially because we almost didn’t do it. I had read some Moroccan articles with warnings of …too chaotic, too easy to get lost, too many harassers in the market etc etc. Morocco felt a little bit…
From Spain to Morocco
We were so close to Morocco when we were in the South of Spain that we decided that we couldn’t miss the opportunity to stand on the Continent of Africa and see Morocco or at least Tangiers, Morocco. We were going to take a ferry from Tariffa but then saw a great flight offer from…
To Sevilla
As much as we loved Valencia – today was the day we had chosen to move on, so good-bye beautiful apartment on a beautiful street, goodbye the best oranges I have ever eaten, good-bye Central Market 3 minutes away that we love-love, goodbye to turning a corner and losing your breath because there was another…
Last Day in Valencia
The Valencians are telling us it is very cold today…record…coldest day of the year. 10 degrees. Stay inside. Not a chance – we have many things we want to see. We bundled up in layers and to be honest it was like a lovely spring day for us. We headed out. We didn’t get enough…
Day 1 and 2 in Valencia
Before we left Canada we bought a two month unlimited Eurorail train pass. I love European train travel. The stations are always in the middle of the city and easy to get to by metro or walking. You don’t have to arrive 3 hours ahead – and you get to see the countryside on your…
Montserrat and that’s that!
Bright and early this morning we took the metro to meet a guide to take us to Montserrat – a multi peaked mountain range about an hour out of Barcelona. Montserrat literally means serrated in Catalan (the region Barcelona is in) and that accurately describes the rock formations that make up the mountains These mountains…