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  • Fall Cooking 2025

    Fall Cooking 2025

    As fall settles in and winter quickly approaches we’ve been making some seasonal dishes. Many of our choices were made with our Thanksgiving celebration in mind, specifically dishes or ingredients we could prepare and freeze for that menu. We mentioned before that we had some Roasted Pumpkin Soup the night we went to see Jethro…

  • Penha Mountain Rolling Cart Race

    Penha Mountain Rolling Cart Race

    Mount Penha is visible from our house and is a treasure that deserves its own post where we can talk about the area’s majesty. To frame today’s story just remember that we can normally hike to the sanctuary at the peak in under an hour (leaving from our front door) and the direct route takes…

  • Surgery Day

    Surgery Day

    I arrived to inpatient check in at Hospital da Luz Guimarães, which is separate from the standard appointment check in desk, just before 9:00 the morning of January 31st. I felt a bit disembodied, floating around in a near dream like state. I had been struggling with my knee for such a long time that…

  • Torn ACL! Now What?

    Torn ACL! Now What?

    I had struggled with left knee instability for about 2 years. I was unable to run, jump or twist and dancing was right out. Lateral movements were limited and getting in and out of cars was challenging. If I stepped wrong or slipped on leaves or a slick spot on the ground, I would almost…

  • UEFA: 3 Ways

    UEFA: 3 Ways

    UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is the European branch of FIFA that hosts a European Championship tournament every four years. This tournament is the second most popular in the world with only the FIFA World Cup ahead of it. Football (soccer for our readers in the United States) is extremely popular throughout Europe, but…

  • Random Adventures With Elsa

    Random Adventures With Elsa

    Have you found that the most memorable parts of a vacation are the surprises, unplanned excursions and serendipitous diversions that lead you to something unique? Sometimes unexpected themes emerge. We stumbled onto a few of these awesome adventures with cousin Elsa. All You Can Eat: We have never been huge patrons of all you can…

  • Bye Bye B Levels

    Bye Bye B Levels

    Although Andrew and I finished year 1 of Portuguese language class with good results, I felt overstimulated and my brain pleaded for a respite. Despite this, Andrew encouraged us to enroll in B levels for the subsequent year, primarily because we adore our professor and wanted to ensure that we would study with him again.…

  • A House In The North

    A House In The North

    Our house hunt kept circling back to a terraced house In Urgezes, a small community very close to Guimarães, just south of Braga, and about an hour train ride away from Porto. We were curious about the layout since the pictures seemed to show four bedrooms but the listing was for two. We researched Guimarães…

  • The Perfectly Imperfect Day

    The Perfectly Imperfect Day

    “Where is the jazz concert?” was the question that Jorge asked most frequently on the perfectly imperfect day in May. He had proposed a light dinner out and a concert in Faro and we say yes to almost any outing with him if we are free. Our time together always consist of speaking Portuguese, a…

  • House Hunting For The Geographically Challenged

    House Hunting For The Geographically Challenged

    I had seen the listing for the house in Olhão which we toured and talked about in Oh, Olhão!?!. Michelle wanted to cancel the tour because we hadn’t been thinking about buying a house and didn’t want to waste the real estate agent’s time. I persisted and immediately after the tour it felt like our…