Europe Travel Journal

This category holds all of the posts on my visits to Europe. Country subcategories within the Europe category contain posts from each country I visited in Europe. And municipal subcategories within each European country category contain posts on each city and town I visited within those countries.

I take some liberty on my definitions of cities and towns. For example, if I take a day trip outside of a municipality I usually include the post on that in the subcategory for the city or town where I started and ended the day.

All of my friends and family are in North America. But I don’t write about visits to them. But I do visit Europe a lot, and I write about those trips. So, this category will likely always have more entries than the other continent categories in this journal.

Porto: Douro Cruise and More

Today we took a long cruise up the Douro River. It carried us from Porto to the “village” of Pinão. I’ll explain why “village” is...

Porto: Out and about

We arrived in Porto after a somewhat more than three-hour train ride from Lisbon. By the time we checked into our hotel, it was too...

Lisbon: Belém District

Today, we spent most of the day in the Belém district of Lisbon. It’s well outside of Lisbon’s downtown, but the district offers a couple...