Nov 18, 2020 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal, Travel Itineraries
For the past two months I have been working as a tour guide for Tugatrips. In this atypical year, when tourism almost stopped due to the pandemic, the most sold tour was Sintra, Cabo da Roca and Cascais, also visiting Pena Palace, a palace I visited more than 30 times...
Oct 9, 2020 | Europe, madeira, Portugal
After a fabulous and windy sunrise at the highest point in Madeira, Pico Ruivo, we continued on to Porto Moniz, in the northwest of the island, to spend the day in its famous natural pools. There are two areas of pools: the old ones, with free access, with a more...
Sep 30, 2020 | Europe, madeira, Portugal
I was absent here for two months and one of the reasons is obviously the lack of travels! With all this coronavirus situation, my situation at TAP is suspended and the usual weekly trips have stopped happening. In the last few days I was urging to start creating...
Jul 30, 2020 | Europe, Spain, Travel Itineraries
Three years ago my mother walked the Portuguese Way of Santiago, from Porto, and since then she has wanted to do one Jacob’s Way again. There are many Ways, the most famous being the French one, partly because almost all the Ways coming from the south of Spain...
Jul 18, 2020 | Europe, Spain
I have been “missing” … In the last month I have not posted anything because I finally managed to return from Mexico, after more than three months closed at home without Iberia offering me a solution to return to Portugal. After a long flight to...
Jun 8, 2020 | Europe, Iceland
In the first week of October 2016, I went to Iceland for a week, as part of an AFS event, the Chapter Exchange, which brought together ten volunteers from each country – Germany, Slovakia, Iceland and Portugal – to discuss Europe’s multiculturalism, namely the...
May 15, 2020 | Europe, Italy, Sicily, Travel Itineraries
When I was in Florence in Erasmus most of my friends were actually from Sicily. So Maria, my flatmate, and I, decided we should fly there during our Easter Holidays and visit the island. We stayed two days in Palermo, took a bus to Taormina where we stayed one and a...
Mar 13, 2020 | Europe, Florence, Italy, Travel Itineraries
As you may know, I did Erasmus in Florence, having spent ten months between 2013 and 2014 in the Tuscan capital. At the time, the blog was another, where I documented my day to day, my visits today to this Palazzo, tomorrow to another. Today I decided to compile here...
Feb 27, 2020 | Alentejo, Europe, Portugal
I had two vouchers at home, one from Odisseias for one night at a hotel, another one from Lifecooler for a meal for two, and a good reason to celebrate away from home: Jorge and I five years anniversary! For some time I had the idea of spending a weekend near...
Feb 19, 2020 | Barcelona, Europe, Spain
The first time I went to Barcelona was in 2011, in my first year of architecture. At the time, I visited Gaudí’s best-known works: The Sagrada Familia, in eternal construction, the wonderful Park Güell (which meanwhile has an entrance fee if you go there between...
Jan 24, 2020 | Europe, France, Paris
For Jorge’s 30th birthday we wanted to do something special! He had already told me that he wanted to go to Disney so we thought it would be the perfect plan! I did an extensive research both to spend one or several days in the parks, including or not a Disney hotel,...
Jan 3, 2020 | Europe, Moscow, Russia
Finally, after a year and seven months of TAP, I had a layover in Moscow – and what a layover, two and a half days in the Russian capital! The first afternoon I decided to go to Izmailovo Market, a place on the outskirts of the city where many colleagues often...
