Tuesday – Day 4 – Belem
Another vacation post. This all happened on Nov. 9. The goal today was Belem, a suburb 3 km west of downtown Lisbon. The books say to take tram 15 from…
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Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. This is for two weeks since I couldn’t post while on vacation. I didn’t read much while I was gone but I did see…
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Monday Day 3 – Sintra
Today we took the train northwest to Sintra. This was the summer escape of the kings of Portugal. There are three main tourist areas – the National Palace, the Moorish…
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Day 2 Lisbon – Sunday
Today we headed downtown. Lisbon’s downtown was partially destroyed by an earthquake and fire in 1755. We took the metro to the Baixa-Chiado stop which is in the rebuilt area….
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Day 1 Lisbon – Saturday
We’re back from a week in Portugal. The wireless Internet didn’t work at the hotel so I ended going cold turkey. No Internet, no phone, no blogs, no Facebook. I…
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Vacation time
The animals know something is up. Freckles got a bath yesterday which is never a good thing in her mind. Ozzie went to stay at his vacation home. There are…
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Kids’ Food Toy Ban
I was minding my own business reading my Facebook page when I came across this story from NPR. San Francisco city council has voted to ban toys in kids’ meals…
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Food Favors
I crawled into bed last night after the SO had already gone to sleep. He woke up and rolled over and cuddled up to me. Then he said ever so…