It’d been almost five years since we’d been over to Navan to visit the Browns. The last time we were on the farm was on a quick trip to Yorke […]
Tag: Beaches
Sydney
The night before our flight to Sydney we checked our documentation through one last time. Then we rechecked it against the various Australian government and airline websites. Then we checked […]
Sintra and Palácio Nacional da Pena
Sintra sits on the western outskirts of Lisbon and is home to the spectacular Palácio Nacional da Pena, a Disneyland-esque castle constructed on the order of King Ferdinand in 1842. The […]
Nazaré and the Monasteries of Leiria
Nazaré is very famous in the surfing world for the monstrous waves that pound its coastline a few times a year in the winter months. Both the male and female […]
The Alentejo and Vicentina Coasts
The last day of our time in Costa del Sol on Spain’s southern coast marked the expiry of our three month Eurail passes. Amazing to think we left California that […]
Costa del Sol
Costa del Sol – the Coast of the Sun – stretches across Spain’s southern Andalusia province from Nerja in the east to La Línea de la Concepción near Gibraltar in […]
Bilbao and the Basque Coast
Bilbao is an industrial port city located roughly 15 kilometers/10 miles inland from the coast and served as our base for a few days to explore the Basque coastline between […]
San Sebastián
It was quite the trip down memory lane for the kids and me as we crossed the border into Spain from the train station in Hendaye in France: we’d walked […]
Biarritz
We had quite the utopian existence for our days in Biarritz on the Basque Coast: sleep in, breakfast, morning swim, lunch, afternoon surf, afternoon Basque nibbles, dinner, sleep, repeat. Biarritz […]
Arcachon and Bordeaux
After a week in the wine country of Burgundy and the Loire the kids and I were about done with vines, so while Lisa hobnobbed with French winemakers across the […]
Vis
It’s amazing how chance encounters can shape one’s journey through life. When we arrived in Split a couple of weeks ago we hopped into a Uber for the ride between […]
Dubrovnik
Unlike France and Italy – where the well-oiled train system made hopping about the country a breeze – it’s a little trickier to roam about the Balkans. The train system […]