doing laundry
29 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ 🌙 63 °F
Because vacation is not all fun and games!
apartment building designed by Gaudi
30 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Our first stop on our day of Gaudi
second stop on Gaudi tour
30 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Rhonda and Russell are playing tour guides and doing a great job.
third Gaudi building
30 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F
Park Güell
30 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
It looks kind of like a cross between Arizona and Dr. Seuss.
La Sagrada Familia
30 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
The crown jewel of our tour.
and so we leave Barcelona
31 października 2016, Hiszpania ⋅ ⛅ 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!
31 października 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Évora is amazing!
31 października 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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
31 października 2016, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 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
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
Those are the ancient walls of the city in the background
Chapel of Bones
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
city center of Évora
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
This feels like a small village in the city center, but it is actually quite a large town
Igreinha
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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. Czytaj więcej
cork factory
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
lunch break
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 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 Czytaj więcej
first real dinner in portugal
1 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ 🌙 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 Czytaj więcej
pottery village
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
the Love Rock
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
cows and egrets with watermelon
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
another megalithic monument
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Located near a very nice farmhouse
biking to castle
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
lunch on top of a mountain
2 listopada 2016, Portugalia ⋅ ☀️ 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?