Tag: stays
Hotels, Airbnbs, and apartments along the way.
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Carcassonne!
Having survived the eBike trip along the canals and said goodbye to our guide, Norbert, and our travel companions, Randy and Deb, we settled into our hotel. The next morning we left our luggage in…
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The Lisbon Apartment
Our Lisbon home base — an apartment in Alcântara, ten minutes from the MAAT and twenty from Torre de Belém, with a landlord family who couldn't be more welcoming.
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Lisbon, Settling In
Drive up to Lisbon, meet the very nice landlord family, return the rental, walk to the supermarket, MAAT in the evening, then a slow second day with a stroll downstream to the Discoveries Monument.
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An Apartment in Lisbon
Hair-clipper run and a long afternoon of video tours of Lisbon apartments. By evening we'd locked one in — steak and Freixinet to celebrate.
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Down to the Algarve
Three days settling into Portimão — the Eurocar wait, an Irish Rover first night, eggs and salads at home, the lighthouse walk, and an overlook at the west end of Praia da Rocha.
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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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Out to Coye-la-Forêt
Picking up the rental at the Gare de Lyon (after a Lime-bike detour to Bercy), out to Manou and Thierry's in Coye-la-Forêt — flute and piano, a walk in the woods, and a steak dinner…
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Arrival, and a Saturday in Paris
Friday's siesta-and-Sam's-restaurant arrival, then a long Saturday with old friends — Martine in the 16th, cheese and pâté at Celia's AirBnB, a grill in Bastille square, and a canal walk back.