Travel

After a few days filled with adventure in Lisbon we journeyed to an amazing beach town to Cascais, made new friends, learned how to surf and filled our bellies with delicious food.

May 26th Our drive to Lisbon was rather eventless thanks to 'Nanda's'reliablility and at our caution to stay out of the way of the extremely fast drivers that would sometimes appear in your rearview mirror. The two and a half hour drive felt pretty short. We spent the whole time talking and reliving last night's events. Jess makes it to the Alfama We arrived in Lisbon and made route for the Museo de Fado where we were set to meet a boy named Isake who would give us the keys to our Airbnb in the Alfama neighborhood. Arriving at the...

May 25th Right now we are flying through the sky over France with a perfectly clear view of the French Atlantic Coastline on our way to Porto. Right now we can recognize Biarritz and San Sebastian from the sky. Tessa is with her grandparents having the time of her life. We FaceTimed with her this morning and there wasn't even a hint of sadness. She said the sweetest 'Maman' which broke my heart. I didn't realize until we were gone that yesterday was probably the last time i will ever nurse Tessa. I know there is no way that she...

May 25th - 26th We arrived in Porto after a short Ryan Air flight from Bordeaux. As mentioned in a previous post, the views of San Sebastian from the sky brought back some wonderful memories of sidra and txacoli. It made me excited for the adventures to come in Portugal. After a landing that could be described as 'holy shit the plane is coming in fast', we retrieved our luggage and set off to find the shuttle to our rental car company. The problem was that our rental company was nowhere to be found. After walking around searching for the shuttle, we...