doing laundry
2016年10月29日, スペイン ⋅ 🌙 63 °F
Because vacation is not all fun and games!
apartment building designed by Gaudi
2016年10月30日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Our first stop on our day of Gaudi
second stop on Gaudi tour
2016年10月30日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Rhonda and Russell are playing tour guides and doing a great job.
third Gaudi building
2016年10月30日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Park Güell
2016年10月30日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
It looks kind of like a cross between Arizona and Dr. Seuss.
La Sagrada Familia
2016年10月30日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
The crown jewel of our tour.
and so we leave Barcelona
2016年10月31日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 59 °F
We are on the bus to the airport. R came down with my cold yesterday so he is not at 100℅ , but it should be a not to hard day.
welcome to Portugal!
2016年10月31日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
We splurged and got a car that is picking us up at the airport and driving us all the way to our hotel in Évora so we avoided having to figure out metro and train and bus transfers.
So when we cameもっと詳しく
Évora is amazing!
2016年10月31日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Quaint cobblestone streets. Very narrow and all the buildings have these blazingly white walls. We are enjoying our first meal in Portugal.
snack for dinner
2016年10月31日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 66 °F
We weren't up for a real dinner and then the hotel offered us this little welcome snack. It's perfect!
view from our hotel window
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
Those are the ancient walls of the city in the background
Chapel of Bones
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
This chapel is lined on the interior with thousands of human bones. They had to move a whole bunch of monastery cemeteries many years ago to build estates on the land and so the monks disinterred theもっと詳しく
city center of Évora
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
This feels like a small village in the city center, but it is actually quite a large town
Igreinha
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
This is a little village. The houses are all blazing white with a stripe of color along the ground level. Usually blue or yellow, but sometimes other colors.
cork tree
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
We passed some cork trees along the way. You can see where they have harvested the cork. They take the first cork (virgin cork) when the tree is about 20 years old. That harvest is not very useful.もっと詳しく
cork factory
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Next stop was a cork factory. They harvest a given tree every 9 years. Then they dry the slabs for about 3 months. There is Russell standing in front of a drying pile. Then they boil the cork for anもっと詳しく
lunch break
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
After spending all our money at the cork factory, we had to hit an ATM before finally eating a late lunch.
wine tasting in São Miguel
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 72 °F
We went to a very fancy winery. Got a great tour and tasted a bunch of yummy wines. The winery is trying an experiment making wine in ancient Amphorae. We tried some. It was kind of rough, but it wasもっと詳しく
first real dinner in portugal
2016年11月1日, ポルトガル ⋅ 🌙 64 °F
Russell ordered a half portion of beans to start. It was huge. Then they mixed up and missed my dinner order which was a really good thing because Russell and I together barely made a dent in hisもっと詳しく
pottery village
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Our first stop on our second day bike tour is a little village known for their clay, and therefore their pottery. After all the stuff we bought yesterday, we have no room in our luggage for moreもっと詳しく
the Love Rock
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Our next stop was a megalithic monument that is known locally as the Love Rock. The young single women of the village come here on the first Monday of the Easter season (first Monday of Lent? Firstもっと詳しく
cows and egrets with watermelon
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
As we were biking, we passed a field of watermelons that must have spoiled before harvest, so they just left them in the field and let a herd of cows in. Evidently, egrets follow cows around here. Soもっと詳しく
another megalithic monument
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Located near a very nice farmhouse
biking to castle
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Next we biked up a short (1mile) but very very steep road to an small village and ancient castle on the top of a hill. Good thing I had an electric bike! I was able to power up the hill without tooもっと詳しく
lunch on top of a mountain
2016年11月2日, ポルトガル ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
Biking is hungry work. Forgot to take a picture before we ate, but here is the view from our table.





































































Donna BielakI wondered what you were going to do about the laundry situation on a long trip. Were laundromats easy to find?