Chef was amazing and it felt like I was visiting a family member’s home town- it was welcoming and I could have stayed for a long time.  But friends of...

The only thing I knew about Chef (as we began to call it), was that it was blue and that we needed 2 nights there. We arrived after an afternoon...

9/1, 7:45am train, Rabat to Marrakesh: I downed a piping hot glass of coffee just minutes before my train left for a 5 hour journey to Marrakesh.  Initially, it looked like...

Here is a brief snapshot of my last couple of days in Porto and Lisbon: Porto is enchanting…  Old buildings, cobble stone streets, history, and of course, port.  Everywhere you...

(So this is what Rococo means…) The National Palace of Queluz was apparently one of the last Great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe and is often referred to as the...

Surf roadtrip to Peniche? 13 of us spent a weekend in the famous surf town of Peniche, located north of Lisbon on a peninsula that juts out on the west coast of Portugal....

Parks and gardens (surrounding hospitals, historical homes and museums) in Portugal are often stocked with different breeds of ducks, swans, roosters, and the occasional peacock. There’s a black swan who mans...