Where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
For this trip we fly to Lisbon, take a train to Faro, one of our favourites, but where we’d only spend one night, and continue to Sevilla by bus the following morning. We’d spend a week there to fight off jetlag and acclimatize. Continue reading “The start”
On the day of our winter 2025 departure for Portugal and Span this Haarlem video is the last post from the September 2024 European trip.
The culmination point of our adventures due to storm Boris was in Budapest. Although we explored a fair bit of the city, we were drawn to the river. We had long walks around the Danube River banks and the bridges and Alex managed to take some videos he put together. Cheers and Happy New Year!
(Posting just over 3 months later)
Sat, Sept 21
Last train for this trip that is. I for sure hope there will be at least a few more. Continue reading “The last train”
(Now that the next trip is booked and Alex’s 70th celebration is over, back to our September trip.)
In Haarlem at last! Continue reading “Haarlem was a missed opportunity”
The reason for this short visit was very sad.
(The four photos from the mountains are given to me by Vanya, curtesy Ivo and his friend. Ivo’s last photos.) Continue reading “Sofia as always was nice, but…”
For this trip Vienna was our hub. We’d touch it a few times as we changed countries and moved from one city to another. Continue reading “Vienna was a mixed bag”
Sept 14 – Sept 21
We made it safe to Budapest on one of the last trains that ran from cold and stormy Vienna (snow to the west of Austria). What a change from a few days ago! Continue reading “Budapest was a wash, literally!”
Aug 30 – Sept 5
After 31 years I am back to Bratislava. It’s Alex’s first time. As mentioned in my previous post I have very fond memories of Bratislava, the Slovakian Tatras and Slovaks. This time we only visited Bratislava. Continue reading “Bratislava is underrated”
This short video is to let everyone know that we are safe and sound, if a little wet, in Europe. In mid September, parts of Europe suffered severe flooding from a massive and long-lasting rainstorm. We were in Sofia, Bulgaria when all the warnings began, and we had to get to Budapest via Vienna early in the storm’s approach. More to come.
It is July and I have booked our next flights. And accommodations. And some trains. In February Alex thought we would not travel again. Continue reading “Warm dry winter, wet cool summer”
In a year Porto has changed. The streets are steeper and the up-hills are longer. We stay with the same people. Loved their studio and the location. That grocery store around the corner is now perched on a steep hill far away. Continue reading “Porto, the revolting city”
Lisbon
We arrived in Lisbon exactly a year after we there in January 2023. Arranged to stay with our old hosts with whom we had kept in touch. Continue reading “Why did we miss Evora last year?”
While sick in bed for over a week, finished the 3 of José Saramago’s (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1998) books, we bought from bookstore Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. Can’t decide if Death at Intervals (known also as Death with Interruptions) or Blindness takes the first prize, but leaning towards Blindness. Back to writing.
Life got in the way and we haven’t posted anything for a long time. We are currently in Coimbra, the medieval capital of Portugal, Continue reading “Coimbra, the old capital of Portugal”
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