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Santiago de Compostela, Porto, and Salamanca
While the first half of our Northern Spain trip was full of relaxing and beach time, in the next three days we visited three different cities and made it back to Madrid. The driving trips were all very long, so we … Continue reading
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A Rainy Trip to Porto with the best sandwich ever
We booked our trip to Porto, Portugal, expecting sun and beaches. When we checked the weather in the week up to our departure, we learned the reality would be far from it. Thanks to some open minds, we ends up … Continue reading
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Tagged aliados, beach, bookshop, bookstore, capa negra II, cathedral, church, clérigos, d, douro, duero, food, francesinha, gaia, harry potter, house, igreja do carmo, igreja dos carmelitas, j. k. rowling, jk rowling, liberdade quare, livrari lello, pedro, pedro IV, port, port wine, porto, portugal, railway station, ribera, river, sandwich, são bento, sirius black, sun, torre de clérigos, tripa, tripe, university of porto, weather, wine
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Lisbon and the Ancient Roman City of Mérida
If we thought we had spent a lot of time traveling by bus on our trip through southern Spain, we were definitely in for a surprise. It took us around four hours to get from our previous stop, Sevilla, to … Continue reading
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The Windmills of Don Quixote and Mosque of Córdoba
We left early Thursday morning for our trip from Madrid to Andalucía, one of Spain’s largest autonomous communities, located along the southern coast of the country and dominated by its Islamic history and influence. This will be a very long trip — … Continue reading
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