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Portugal Days One – Three: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (Canada, Lisbon, Cascais)

We’re back from a whirlwind tour of the best Portugal has to offer by way of sights, sounds, and flavours. This was also our longest family trip to date which means we have a…

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  • Family, Portugal, Travel
  • Aug, 31, 2024
  • 36 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 30 August (The Portugal Edition)

I’m back.

Sort of. My body and brain still feel like they’re 2,800 miles away in Portugal, but in reality they’re settling into a routine – or current lack thereof – here in Nova Scotia.

We…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Portugal, Travel
  • Aug, 30, 2024
  • 37 Comments

Summer Brain Dump + Booking Another Adventure/Suggestions?

I have a love-hate relationship with summer. On the one hand, during the long, dark and cold Canadian winter I am kept alive by the promise of a day in the future where we…

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  • Random, Travel
  • May, 30, 2024
  • 49 Comments

Prince Edward Island Day Two: Epic Dunes, Sweet Treats…and More Lighthouses

No one was in a hurry to get started on Day Two. I didn’t sleep very well, mostly because the room was too warm and I had opted – for no good reason -…

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  • Prince Edward Island, Travel
  • Apr, 24, 2024
  • 13 Comments

Prince Edward Island Day One: One Long Bridge, Four Lighthouses, and Millions of Red Rocks

One of the perks of keeping a One Line A Day Journal is the regular prompts about what we were doing this day in years gone by.

Apparently, two years ago, we had just wrapped…

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  • Lighthouses, Prince Edward Island, Travel
  • Apr, 23, 2024
  • 24 Comments

Barcelona: Planning, Getting There, What It Cost…and an Unexpected Footnote

I’ve recycled a bit of the text from my Rome travel summary because, not surprisingly, we plan trips in similar ways year over year.

PLANNING

At this point, we’ve settled on a fairly clear division of…

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  • Barcelona, Organization, Planning, Travel
  • Apr, 10, 2024
  • 30 Comments

Barcelona Day Six: Bubbles, Whimsy, and New Friends

It’s always good to finish a trip on a high note, and we broke glass with our operatic crescendo on this one! Day Six was wonderful (I still have a special place in my…

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  • Barcelona, Travel
  • Apr, 08, 2024
  • 21 Comments
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