Tag: stays
Hotels, Airbnbs, and apartments along the way.
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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.