Jun 20, 2019
Yesterday, Wednesday, turned out to be much better weather than the forecast. There are many elevators and escalators to help get up and down the hills here in Lisbon. Some are free as are the ones up to the castle while most of the others are covered by a transit pass. We purchased a 24 […]
Jun 03, 2019
We are at almost the halfway point of our trip and the days are beginning to blur together. So much to see and so little time. We did a free walking tour on Monday, June 2nd. It was interesting and we saw some things that we would have missed on our own. However the tour […]
Mar 28, 2014
A few nights ago on Tuesday evening we were swarmed by hundreds of thousands of termites. Having done some research after the crisis I think they were drywood termites. It was just getting dark, Colin was getting out of the shower and I was preparing dinner when we both started feeling things all over our […]
Mar 10, 2014
On March 1 st I made a link on my post to Jacqui & Cameron’s blog. They are a young couple taking a year off to drive their RV down to South America. A few days ago they left the Isla to continue their dream journey. Most unfortunately they were involved in an accident. Happily […]
Mar 01, 2014
It is time to say adios to Chris and Roger. A week sure goes by fast. They are flying off to their Baja home this morning for two weeks of R & R there. We have also had a few RVer’s leave this last week and a very special adios to Jacqui & Rolf and […]