Portugal

At the border with Spain, towns built as stalwart forts now greet visitors and pilgrims with open arms. (To read the post, click here.)

Viana do Castelo graciously greets visitors in northern Portugal. From the roost of Mt Santa Luzia to the architectural heritage of its streets, Viana charms. (To read the post, click here.)

Six eras spanning over four millennia of life in Lisbon can be sampled in one visit to NARC. (Click here to read the post.)

The thrilling exhibit about the role of history and archeology regarding the pharaohs merited its title. Who became a superstar over time and why? (Click here to read the post.)

On a beautiful October day, we once again enjoyed the birds, greenery, waterways, and guide within the scenic wetlands of Samouco and EVOA. (Click here to read the post.)

As a fine exhibit here In Lisbon showed, Banksy keeps meeting walls he likes, on which he likes to critique what he doesn’t like about our world. Click here to read the post.

We took a recommendation and went to the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, a private collection by a devoted art collector and a developer of oil fields in Iraq early in the 20th century. Click here to…

We were thoroughly smitten with Portugal and its two major cities - Lisbon and Porto - on our first visit ever. Here is what we saw and what we observed. Click here to read the…

We had seen quite a lot of Lisbon and its surrounding towns when we first visited in the fall of 2017. This time we kept quite busy with other matters and enjoyed the pleasure of…

Departing Jordan... After four and a half months in Jordan, our “covid-19 normal,” we were flying out to outlast the pandemic in Portugal. Click here to read the post.