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Enjoying Portugal
We spend the last week of our six-week trip to Europe exploring northern Portugal, spending time in Figuera da Foz, Porto, and finally Lisbon. These…
Exploring the Algarve
Driving to the Algarve A scenic and virtually traffic-free, two-hour drive takes us from Seville to the little town of Luz in the western Algarve.…
Sweating Through Southern Spain
Holy Toledo The drive to Toledo from Zaragoza is long and tedious through mostly flat lands that give way to urban sprawl around Madrid which…
Over the Pyrenees into Spain
Climbing Over the Pyrenees We leave Albi and drive west toward the Pyrenees. Today is the first day of our entire trip (actually, the only…
Heading into Western France
Dropping Off the Paintings Before we can properly start the vacation part of our vacation (as opposed to the exhibition part), we need to drop…
Surviving the Canicule in Style
The Heat Wave Hits It’s all over the news—even back home. We get emails and Facebook messages about the French heatwave—the canicule. How are we…