Portugal Spring 2022

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 …

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 …

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 …