During December, in the middle of the holiday season, I took two one-day trips to visit the village of Porches, the home of Portuguese pottery, and Faro, where I found an ancient walled city within the largest city in the Algarve. First was a visit to Porches, thanks to friend Dick and Anita and their …
CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS – PORTUGUESE STYLE!
It's often said that the holidays are exhausting. All that visiting with relatives, worrying about what gifts to purchase for whom, traveling between houses, and then there is the preparation and consumption of all that food! This being my first holiday spent in Portugal, I was without any of my family members or friends from home. …
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IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS…
....everywhere I go in Portugal, with colorful lights sparkling and holiday decorations filling the windows of shops and restaurants. The above is a photo of my Christmas 'bough.' It's not a whole tree, just a limb from a pine tree growing in the backyard of the parents of my landlord Jorge's beautiful wife, Maria Joáo. …
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BOM DIA
Welcome to Casa dos Avos - the door is open and I would love for you to come visit! Here is a link to a video of my home and village. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO4lOzz4MlQ This is the start of my 3rd week in The Algarve region of southern Portugal and the sun is once again shining. The …
LONDON REDUX
There is never enough time to see and do everything you can and want to do in London. It's just too big, there is just too much, it's hard to even think where to begin - again. I had 4 days totally free from the time I finished up my housesit in Eastbourne until I …
Godmanchester (Cambridge), Brighton & Eastbourne
On October 3rd, I said goodbye to the warmth and sun on the Isle of Man and ferried to Liverpool on a damp, gray day, hopped in a cab to Liverpool Station where I then took a train to Godmanchester, an ancient Roman village in Cambridgeshire to housesit for the next 10 days. The Coleman …
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10 DAYS ON THE ISLE OF MAN
Do you know where the Isle of Man is located? Did you know that Douglas is the capital? Did you know that the above photo is their national emblem? Do you know what their world-famous TT is all about? These were all questions I certainly didn't know the answers to when I accepted a 10-day …
THE FACES OF IRELAND
What made my visit to Ireland so memorable was the wonderful people I met along the way. From a long-time internet sewing friend who met me in Belfast to her parents who took me to tea in Bushmills; relatives, neighbors and friends of friends in Virginia; a creative quiller at a craft fair in Belfast …
IRELAND – PART 3 – The Wild Atlantic Way Cond.
Did I mention that almost everywhere you go, you're being watched? These wooly guys are literally wherever you look - on a mountaintop or in a valley, usually with a splash of colored spray painted on them designating who they belong to. After a lovely sleep and another full Irish breakfast, tops on my bucket …
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IRELAND PART 2 – THE WILD ATLANTIC WAY
The sign above is the one I will now follow for the next few days. I took lots of photos to show you the places that I visited, but below is the Irish Tourist Board's video of the Wild Atlantic Way. Watching it will show you just why I was so excited to drive this …
My Home on the Roam 