Tag: Portugal

A Little Tired Out….

[Updated to correct the horrible spelling errors] Every vacation has some down days, and the past two have been like that for me. Perhaps I’m just getting tired of the foreign-ness of everything (especially here, where I can’t speak the language), perhaps it’s the days getting shorter, perhaps it’s not having enough intellectual challenge without the class, or perhaps I just miss Paris, I’m not sure. Yesterday we went into […]

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Portugal is Beautiful and Friendly … and Cold

On Monday we left Paris and traveled to Porto, Portugal.  Our travel day wasn’t the best; everything was long — the RER train to CDG took for ever, EasyJet’s computers were on the fritz, which meant that we spent almost an hour in line to check in, the plane did one of those “load and then sit on the tarmac” things, which added an hour to the total travel time, […]

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