Sep 26, 2018 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
Between 16 and 22 September the European Mobility Week was celebrated and to remember it Carris Museum did an initiative called “Tram Parade – Ride with History”, where we could go aboard one of the old trams that they keep in the museum like the 444, king D. Carlos’...
Aug 13, 2018 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon, 40 degrees. After months of a supposedly summer without actual summer temperatures, St. Peter decided to overcompensate … several days where the only possible way to survive would be either in front of a fan or inside water. The weekend came and this meant...
Jun 27, 2018 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
Sintra is one of the places where I go when I have visitors, since it is easy to get to Lisbon from my house, but not as simple to go to Sintra, and if I only have one day or two to be with them, that’s where I usually drive them. We usually take the traditional walk...
Oct 31, 2017 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal, Travel Itineraries
I have a tendency here in the blog, to speak mostly of my trips abroad, when Lisbon is the city I know best, not only because whenever I have foreign friends visiting I take them for a walk, just as I have gone for a walk countless times to find the most interesting...
Apr 29, 2017 | Europe, Portugal
Last weekend I went with some friends to Arouca to spend the weekend. A friend of my mother has a house there and from there we could drive to Passadiços do Paiva, the World Travel Award winner of 2016 of Best Touristic Development Project. Unfortunately dued to the...
Sep 12, 2012 | Azores, Europe, Portugal, Travel Itineraries
São Miguel is the biggest island of the Azorean archipelago, out of nine. It is also the most visited one, not just because it is so beautiful and has many things to see, but mostly because there are no direct flights to the other islands, except to Terceira. The...
