Summer is not the best time to be a tourist in a city. It's been plenty hot on these brilliantly sunny days. Being tourists, wandering around, is draining and we…
Read MorePorto Day 3 (June 11) Atlantic Breezes in Matosinhos
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Porto Day 2 (June 10)
Our Porto apartment, on Rua do Almada, had big glass doors at the back, overlooking gardens and backs of apartments and restaurants on the parallel street. It was a fairly…
Read MorePorto Day One (June 9th)
The train trip from Lisbon to Porto was fairly smooth and uneventful. The Lisbon Oriente train station had a beautiful geometric patterned sun shade The train was on time, we…
Read MoreLisbon Day Two (June 8th)
We had a slow start for the second day, but we decided to check out a few of the iconic scenic sites. We felt mostly pretty energetic, but didn’t want…
Read MoreLisbon Day One (June 7th)
As I write this, Pam and I are at the end of our second full day in Porto. I’m going back to review Lisbon, so it doesn’t get lost in…
Read MoreLisbon Travel Status Notes….
I wanted to give a quick overview of the past couple of days to catch everyone up on our adventure. I'll work on another post later with a deeper dive…
Read MorePhotopills / Covid
Well, no huge surprise I guess, but we both got what seems to be panning out as mild cases of Covid. Pam started feeling bad Weds night during a light-painting…
Read MoreArtiem Audax Hotel in Menorca
This is Pam's review of our stay at Artiem, which we enjoyed tremendously. We came three days before the Photopills camp so that we could recover from the long set…
Read MoreEarly dinner
Strawberry gazpacho, chopped salad, and salad bar is Pam's first course We were overtired so we rested Thursday afternoon and had dinner at 9pm after taking some sunset photos behind…
Read MorePhotopills progress report
After a few days of recovery, the camp started out with quite a bang! Sunday afternoon consisted of registrations and introductions, but Monday was a 23 hour marathon. We had…
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