Portugal

I regret that it took me until later in life to visit Portugal. It is a beautiful country. I hope to return one day. Maybe I already will have by the time you stumble upon this category description. I won’t likely change this description if I do return to Portugal. So, you get what you get.

Apropos of nothing, I think I ate more octopus while I was there than I had in total previously in my life. It’s almost a staple there. And delicious. Please don’t hate me for it, PETA.

This category is a subcategory of “Europe.” There are also subcategories under this category for each city and town I visited while there.

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...

Lisbon: Wandering

I landed in Lisbon (aka Lisboa) today. Well, the flight and landing weren’t exactly all up to me. A plane and its crew were a...