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Oh my goodness. I took so many baby pictures today and they’re all adorable but I’m going to share just this one. Because his expression is priceless and deserves a caption, but I will let you come up...
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Reminded
I’m taking a little time-out from pictures to remember some people in my life who have passed — recently, and not-so-recently. There are always reminders, because every relationship has things that...
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Peneda-Gerês National Park
We took advantage of stellar weather today to go exploring with our visitors, and of course Ice was only too happy to come along. A tiny preview of our afternoon in Peneda-Gerês National Park, where...
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Scenic Serra De Fafe, Portugal
Ice was in his element last Sunday when we took him with us to Serra de Fafe, in the Braga District. The local terrain features vegetation, boulders, and a million things for a young dog to sniff....
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Welcome To Portugal, Your Day Will Revolve Around Food
My friends from Vancouver arrived this morning and I’ve been sharpening my tour guiding skills again. Maybe it’s a Vancouver thing, but our lives tend to revolve around food. We talk about the food we...
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Postcards From Portugal’s Peneda-Gerês National Park
The blog has been very city-focused lately, I know, because of the recent spate of overseas visitors I’ve been taking around Porto. All of their May trips have been very short, which necessitated...
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Sweetness For Monday
I wanted to post something simple for a Monday, the first day of June. For this I went back to the February archives, to a sunny winter day on the 18th that was warm enough to have a picnic in Parque...
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44 Flashback Photos For 44 Trips Around The Sun
I celebrated a birthday (and anniversary) while in Israel last month, which is the purpose of every trip abroad in mid-June. The only remotely birthday-ish thing I/we do that day is to splash out on a...
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Cherry-Picking In Penela Da Beira
We picked about 20kg of cherries in the home village of Penela da Beira this morning. The big cherry tree in front of Paulo’s grandma’s house was heaving with fruit and we couldn’t reach most of it,...
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Helma-isms
Here's to you, dear Helma. The world is a less funny place without you in it. Helma-isms
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