A new experience or simply just a very different way of traveling to what I am used to has begun. Going from traveling alone with a backpack to traveling with a currently 8-month-old baby is definitely different and the first thing that strikes me is, how much packing is needed. Whether it is a weekend … Read more
Enough that it was an early evening yesterday, but it was perhaps not entirely voluntary that I got up in the morning, long before the sun rose to cook porridge, play with the babblers and at the same time try to make sure that the noise level is kept down so that we neither wake … Read more
We may have landed in Faro but when we took the rental car and drove straight to our accommodation in Armação de Pêra we decided to take the car back to Faro today to explore the city. My main goal that I had been eyeing for a while was to visit the “Capela dos Ossos” … Read more
We chose to spend New Year’s Eve “at home”, with take-away food and a fight against our internal clock to stay awake until midnight, a fight we lost by about an hour even though the bubble was on cooling and we woke up to the sound of bombs and rockets at midnight. It was probably … Read more