Tag: Architecture
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Lisbon & Porto Week 2
We kicked off the week taking a guided tour of the B-MAD Art Deco museum. It was exceptional for a small museum off the main tourist path. Rooms from the Craftsman Era through Art Nouveau…
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A Day in Tavira
Tavira's bakery and castle, the ferry across to Isla de Tavira (with a tuna-burger lunch at Xiri), Praia do Barril and the anchor cemetery, then Cacela Velha and Cabanas before a Tapas do Mundo dinner…
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South to Barcelona
Down the TGV to Barcelona — Sagrada Família, Montjuïc by cable car, gelato at the top, and two more days of Rick-Steves walking through the Gothic Quarter and El Born.
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Sunday at the Abbey
An abbey, a concert, a tasting of Pablo's beers, and a vegetable tart for dinner — last day in France before packing for Barcelona.
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A Day in Amiens
A planned drive to the English Channel that didn't make it out of Amiens — climbing the cathedral towers, the hortillonnages tour, and dinner at L'Improviste before the drive back.