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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Only two palaces and the city center – my Sintra of omission
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Introduction. In general, I have nothing but praise for Portugal Trails – the agency I worked with to plan this leg of my trip. (Update: In 2024, Portugal Trails renamed itself to Tour Tailors.) However, this was a day where …
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In Cascais you’re curious
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Okay, so maybe this isn’t the best pun possible but it’s the best I could do with minimal effort. Really, to approximate the Portuguese pronunciation of the city it would sound something like kuhs-KYSH where the first vowel sounds like …
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Back in the air after more than three years
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A few months after I returned from my trip to South America, I began planning a three week trip to Portugal and was ready to depart in late March 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic ended those plans. I optimistically rescheduled …
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