SherriOct. 6: We sit in our 500 square foot mansion, more than a tad tired. It has been a long day, one that was full of awe and art and spontaneity and two excellent meals.
Our day started bright and early and this afforded us the pleasure of watching the sunrise out the bedroom window.
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SherriOct. 7: We are back from what has become our annual dinner at Anne-Sophie’s. Our busy day started out with what has become our annual attempt to visit The Catacombs. Two years ago, we showed up bright and early on a Monday morning only to discover that The Catacombs are closed on Mondays.
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SherriOct. 8: Now it’s really late. The subways shut down at 1:40 AM on Saturdays and we caught ours in the nick of time. It’s been a full day. From the Bastille in the east to the Pont d’Alma in the west and things in between, we have covered a lot of real estate today.
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SherriOct. 9: I write this piece from a plane, flying from Paris to Lisbon. It’s about a two hour flight and, knowing an entire other country and culture awaits us when we land, we have to make the most of our time for blogging. But let me go back to yesterday morning.
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SherriOct. 10: 4:30am came way too quickly but we got our tushes out the door by 4:45am. We didn’t know if we would end up taking a taxi or public transportation, as it depended on if there were taxis available at that time of day. Heading down to Gare Montparnasse,
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SherriOct. 11: It’s chilly and raining outside, but it matters not. We are enjoying some late night tea in our room at the Lisbon Pousada. We started the day with breakfast at the pousada before embarking on a day of exploration of the Alfama district. From our research,
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SherriOct. 12: We are having our ritual late night tea at the pousada, recounting the fun we’ve had traipsing around Lisbon. Almost every picture depicted of Lisbon features Belém and so it certainly made it our must do list. It’s a bit out of town, but again, it has some very key sights that any visit to Lisbon should include.
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SherriOct. 13: Dan and I are back from our final walk to Rossio and it’s after 1am. We started our day in an easy going fashion, because what the heck – we are on vacation after all. Blogging at a café and watching the world go by is a very European way of passing the time.
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SherriOct. 14: I write this from our new home, the Convento de Évora, located in the heart of the Alentejo. We awoke in Lisbon and got organized to head east into the Alentejo, the next chapter of our travels. The Alentejo occupies about one third of all of Portugal and it’s pretty much the bottom third of the country,
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SherriOct. 15: We are loving our pousada and the features that make it unique. We especially like that we now sleep where the nuns used to. Our day began when we went to breakfast in the most gorgeous breakfast nook either of us have been in to date.
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