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...
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...
May 28, 2020 | Africa, Marrakech, Morocco, Travel Itineraries
In 2016 I went to Morocco for the first time. Foreigners who do not need a visa for Portugal can be in Portugal for a period of three months, renewable for another three months and then have to leave the Schengen area and re-enter so that time starts counting from...
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...
May 5, 2020 | America, Mexico, Oaxaca, Travel Itineraries
When I say that I lived in Mexico, I say that I lived in Mérida, but in fact I have spent as much time in the state of Oaxaca as in Mérida. As my husband comes from its capital, Oaxaca de Juárez, whenever we go to Mexico, we go to Oaxaca to visit the family. The state...
Apr 25, 2020 | America, Mexico, Travel Itineraries, Yucatan
The Yucatan peninsula is one of the most impressive places I have ever visited! I lived in its capital, Mérida, for a semester, and this city is a great starting point to visit several other places of this beautiful state, since it is in a very central position in...
Apr 14, 2020 | America, Mexico, Travel Itineraries, Yucatan
For those who don’t know, I lived in the city of Mérida, Yucatán, between January and May 2015, an exchange financed by Santander, Ibero-American program, still when I was in university. There were two main reasons for choosing this city, the first is because it...
Apr 2, 2020 | America, Mexico, Mexico City, Travel Itineraries
Mexico City, capital of the country that was named after the tribe that lived here, the Aztecs, who called themselves Mexicas. Mexico City, the third largest city in the world, with more than 20 million inhabitants. Mexico City, land of chilangos, city of contrasts,...
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...
Dec 26, 2019 | Africa, Maputo, Mozambique, Travel Itineraries
Mozambique’s last post, the post about Maputo, the capital. On this trip Maputo was like a place of passage, first on the way to Pemba, then between Ilha de Moçambique and Kruger, with the arrival of Clara, and finally a few days before returning to Lisbon. We...
Feb 21, 2019 | Europe, madeira, Portugal, Travel Itineraries
I had three weeks of holidays (all from last year, since I started working for TAP) and little money in my pocket. So I decided to go to Madeira for five days – TAP offers us domestic flights, so everyone can go home, and I stayed with my great friend Soraia. I have...
Nov 30, 2017 | Asia, Himeji, Hiroshima, Japan, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Tokyo, Travel Itineraries
I have just returned from two intense weeks in Japan, so it is an ideal time to share with you my plan, including the adaptations that were made on the spot due to weather conditions or taking less or more time to visit the different attractions than originally...
