While our Canadian friends and family were sleeping, we continued with the hiking theme this Sunday morning and headed northeast through Casal Godinho for a hike up the nearby mountain to start our day. One common theme everywhere seemed to be large boulders. Of course, the girls climbed a few of them as Micheka and I cautiously watched but thankfully […]
Thursday marked the beginning of our two-day, 35,000-step trek (more on that from Micheka). As a test run for our day trips, we decided to walk into the nearby Marco de Canaveses town. It was a 40-minute walk (mostly downhill) to get into the valley, then up some 60-degree inclines back up into the town centre! While I did feel […]
So far, the start of our sabbatical time has been pure decompression. Over the past few months (and especially the final week ahead of the trip), we have been building up to our departure last Sunday – things to do, people to see, etc. And, after nearly a full day of travel and subsequent crash, we find ourselves just taking […]
Thank you for choosing to visit our travel blog for our upcoming sabbatical year in Europe! We will be leaving Canada on June 25 with our first stop being near Porto, Portugal. Stay tuned for more content in the coming weeks. We will also be back-filling this blog with content from our old blog in the 2009-2014 era, so feel […]