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March 28, 2026
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Takeoff to Porto
March 28 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Alright guys. We're starting this trip with a funny opening this time.

So first off is Luke's new face. I keep looking at him and feel like I'm 16 again. Very nostalgic.

Second; I was quite surprised this morning, shortly before we entered the Taxi driven by Stevie, when Luke confirmed he packed the airpods for the movie we were going to watch later in the plane. He told me to pack them, which I forgot, hence my surprise.

I'll skip the boring itinerary leading up to our flight - once in it, we're waiting for 40 minutes because a Portuguese couple bought a ticket for a young girl with the wrong birthdate. (How does one get that wrong?)
Then when Luke finally agrees to start the movie and hands me the airpods I notice...

There's only one single airpod in
the case. 🙄

So, flight spent electronic-less, since we always share BOTH airpods to watch a movie TOGETHER, we arrived a hundred years later for Luke to have a mini-panic attack looking for his wallet. Yes. He lost it.

Thankfully, cabin crew found it and brought it back to us.🤣

Also, little life-hack: if you're not sure whether booking online is cheaper than on site, check website price, ask on site, if it's more expensive: go outside and book online: you save over 100€.
Now guess who came up with that tactic.
Yes, me.
Because I'm smart. Thehe.🤓

We spent the day adventouring through Porto with our blue ford, walked a lot and had a dish called "Francesinha" which was quite good!

Another funny instance was when we walked into an adidas store, saw a humongous adidas-shoe and Luke exclaimed: "Oh look, they have your dad's shoe size." Shoutout to my dad on this one! I laughed.😁Read more
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Nazaré
March 29 in Portugal ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
We started late into the day because we went to bed super late last night. Plus I seem to sleep much longer whenever on vacation, and Luke is the opposite.🤣

Anyhow, we began our venture out to Nazaré where you can find (in season) the biggest waves in the world. And even though it wasn't season, I still saw the biggest waves ever!
It was a bit windy but we enjoyed a stroll along the beach and then on the promenade, back and forth, checking out one gift shop after the other to usually walk out not buying anything because we're picky. Yes, Luke is too.😝

I ate some signature sea food that Luke didn't since he's allergic to anything that lives in the ocean besides shrimp - and we drove up to the top of the cliff to see everything from above before we left to go home. Since we ate a Nutella Crepe with strawberries at 5, we didn't eat dinner until 9:30pm when we made some Coixhinas and a cucumber-radish-parsley salad back at our apartment.

T'was a nice day.💖Read more
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Fatima
March 30 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
After a home-made breakfast of some eggs that should have been sunny-side-up (but were actually kinda scrambled since the pan was sticky), we headed out to Fatima.

It was my first time driving since being here and I was taking the left lane for those with a highway pass - until Luke told me to go right. Which I did. And since we have a pass and no ticket, we were standing in front of a barrier we couldn't open.

When Luke backed up the first time, an alarm went off, then he pushed the info button upon my request. The lady said she couldn't open. Luke was like "Okay so only option is to back up and go to the other lane?" her answer: "Yes, to your own responsibility."
And backed up he did.

We saw a sanctuary in Fatima today, went to a mall consisting of one store containing more Jesus statues than anything else and a single restaurant that looked like it was one of those buffet-places in an elderly home. We decided quickly to continue on - and went to spend the afternoon playing cards at the beach.📍🇵🇹🌊Read more
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Marinha Grande
March 30 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
My goodness I just noticed that I totally forgot at least two or even THREE footsteps.
Sheesh. Talk about consistency. So sorry.
So, after spending the day checking out Fatima, we also spent a day at the beach close to where we are staying.
I don't have all that much to say except mentioning that there was a cluster of storms waging through this part of Portugal, as you can see on some of the photos. It's brutal how winds can uproot trees. I've seen the forests in the US close to the grand canyon that were burned to a crisp by wildfires: this looks just as devastating.
Nature takes as easily as it gives.

That's it for this post - since I'm a bit late in posting, the next one will follow within minutes! 😁😎🌊💖Read more
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Lissabon
March 31 in Portugal ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Yes! We were in Lissabon and haven't been chilling around as you'd assume due to my inactivity these past two three days, even though we have done a fair bit of chilling as well.

So I'll start off saying: getting to this "Palace de Pena" or whatever it's called was a pain in the arse.

We thought cool we have a car, we can just drive up, take some pictures, leave.

No. A guy said there were no parking spaces up there, and lead us to some car park a million miles away from the main attraction and said we had to either pay 15€ for the bus or 20€ per person for a tuktuk. Pah! Ain't no one ripping Nat-The-Traveller off, no no!
So I dictated we try the car again because there were loads of other cars using the street up to where we would have gone, had we not been interrupted. Alas, Nat is not entirely always right, and it was true: no way up since the police was only letting tuktuk and busses through. Pff, still - the guy might as well have been lying. 🤓

Anyway, we decided that it wasn't possible the bus was more expensive than a tuktuk (at least not in Portugal, and funny enough a tuktuk driver tried selling us his ride as cheaper saying he costs 20€ per person, but the bus costs 16€ per person one way. which was a lie, we paid 24€ for both, both ways. instead of 40€ with the tuktuk.)

We got driven up the hill just the two of us with a super friendly bus driver, checked out the castle, me seeing the end of my life when walking around the narrow side of one of the towers and leaving to see "Torre de Belem" subsequently. We went shopping in a mall, saw a ToysRus I thought I'd never see again and found out Pink Street is not literally a pink street as assumed. More like a place for... well... colorful rainbow people?

Had some Mexican food in Lissabon and I witnessed a drug exchange. A guy behind Luke unscrewed something underneath a trash-can top and handed a white looking bar to a guy that tucked it away as discreetly as possible. 💊💉Read more
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Last Day
April 2 in Portugal ⋅ 🌙 13 °C
Today we ate lunch at our apartment (Luke has seen enough of my healthy salad) and spent a part of the afternoon at the beach in Nazaré and the other part at another beach somewhere close to Nazaré.

The highlight was that I won nearly every game of Rummy that we played until Luke became so sad I had a guilty conscience just playing, lol, and also the restaurant we decided to have dinner at.

We got the best place in the restaurant after we were the first to walk in at shortly past 7pm because we sat directly next to the bar in a cute booth.

The bar-lady liked us since she used us as her guinnea-pigs: I think we drank a total (per person) of 3-4 cocktails and one glass of liquor. The music was great, the food was superb, the waitresses were super friendly and I've never gotten so many free alcoholic beverages in my life. Great close to our very successful trip through Portugal. Also, I lost 2 games (from like 20) so it ended on a good note for Luke too, hehe. 😎

I drove our stick-shift car back to the apartment (noticing how much I miss constantly driving a stick-shift cause it's just so much more fun) and ending the evening catching all y'all up in our super interesting trip as usual.😁 Cheers!

I'll be back in two months when Luke and I are on our surprise honeymoon: wherever that will be! We don't even know yet! 😎Read more
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Trip end
April 3, 2026

Takeoff to Porto

Nazaré

Fatima

Marinha Grande

Lissabon

Last Day