2026–Our Bi-annual Road Trip..

It’s a really rainy day here, so we are doing laundry, reading and napping. Hoping for a walk around dinner when it should stop. Here are pictures from the last couple of days. The Natural History Museum made an exhibition of things in storage. They don’t like that a polar…

Started the day We had palms, butterflies and a lake. Suns out, so we ate on a boat.

We are here during the Jazz Festival! Listened to a Danish Dixieland Band today! Then walked over to a 1600’s castle. Cool town. After 2 months in the South where there is little concept of personal space, I crowded up next to a guy as we wear in line for…

Saw this mechanical clock. Took the guy 20 years to do the math and the 20 more to get the money to build it. Completed in 1955. The slowest gear completes a revolution fastest gear completes a revolution every ten seconds and the slowest every 25,753 years. And this Greek Temple-looking…

It took me a couple of days to get my head around Lisbon. But now I can truly say it is a lovely, interesting city. We enjoyed getting to know it. I think in about 10 years it will be a world class place to visit .

When we visited Singapore (who am I) Max really loved the gardens. So we have made an effort to see them It was so peaceful. The garden is 150 years old. Which means big trees. Off to Copenhagen tomorrow!

Woke up this morning to this I’ve been watching the weather, often the heat waves in Budapest only last 3-4 days…but today it looks like there are really hot days for the next 2 weeks. So despite my LIST. (So very very hard for me to abandon a list) We…

We went to Bordallo Pinheiro Museum (after accidentally going to the eponymous store..wrong subway stop entirely). He lived 1844 to 1905. Then went to the Time Out Market…much like our Public Markets (Philly, Milwaukee). SO crowded….so we went to an empty Vietnamese (4.8) restaurant across the street. I don’t get…

Ok… we made it to the castle in Sintra…mostly because it was cooler there than Lisbon… I know a lot of you are suffering really high heat, but once it is over 85 my PG body just overheats! It was incredible and the pictures don’t give you the fun of…

There are even more tiles in Portugal than Spain. They started making them in 1200. On the way to the Tile Museum we saw: The Museum was in a Covenant.