2026–Turkey and Sicily

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.

Went to a suburb of Lisbon today. Has (not very expensive) tickets to go into the Cloister It had just opened so we went into a ( you guessed it) museum for a long while. Line was longer when we came out. But we REALLY liked the museum. There was…

Let’s be honest. There are a lot of visitors in Lisbon. But we have a solution. Go to Museums! Or the Police Museum Fun day!

Decided to head out to the MAAT Museum. click here to learn more I’m loving what artists can do in BIG spaces. Nicolas Floc’h: (gotta wonder how you say his name) Tambor Terra Both were incredible. The brown is tan bark and the artist encouraged us to take off our…

The Castle in Lisbon is just up the hill from our house. Remember we are UP. Yesterday we walked to the grocery store. We got there by entering a building on the 7th floor and riding the elevator DOWN to the grocery store. We went early and it was peaceful…