Or Lisboa, as they call it in Portugal. After we finished sailing along the Douro River in northern Portugal, we headed down to Lisbon. A little perspective would be useful here. Portugal is a small country. The population is estimated at somewhere between 10.5 and 11 million people. And last year the tourist industry estimated […]
Read More »When we finally arrived, we began our trip to Portugal with a Road Scholar led cruise on the Douro River. The cruise was truly magnificent, as was the Road Scholar guide, Lucia Gomez. We got lucky with the weather which was extravagantly good, and the scenery which was stunningly beautiful along the riverbank. In our […]
Read More »Well, we are back after a 1 month trip to Portugal that included a cruise on the Douro River and a 3-week stay in Lisbon. Actually, we almost didn’t make it. One of our connecting flights was from Frankfurt airport in Germany and the ever helpful pilots union of Lufthansa announced one day before we […]
Read More »To mark the beginning of the new year we took a short trip to Colonial Williamsburg. It was just fabulous. We stayed in a wonderful hotel, the Williamsburg Inn. The luxury hotel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It was originally built in 1937 by John D Rockefeller as part of an […]
Read More »Mary Anne and I finally made it out to southern California where we got together with our friends of 45 plus years: Anne Marie and Rich Rynda (from New Jersey) who now live in California and Ethel Thau, who still lives in New Jersey. Anne Marie and Rich have a daughter who lives in Baltimore […]
Read More »We are back home after spending about two weeks in the UK. Our friends Michael and Sally Oxlade, whom we met way back in the 1980s when we lived in London, took us everywhere. We had the opportunity to visit Devon, Cornwall, and the Scilly Islands of St Mary’s and Tresco. Not to mention staying […]
Read More »At first the weather began to clear. But then… it returned with a vengeance. So, we never made it off the island. Because of bad weather the planes couldn’t fly. So now we are back in the hotel. Until Monday. The good news—It’s a fabulous hotel. After all, there are worse places to get stranded. […]
Read More »At the moment we are fogged in at St Mary’s airport. Our flight, which was originally scheduled for 9:40 AM has been rebooked for a 12:55 flight this afternoon. We’ll see how that works out. In the meantime, judging by the reaction of the crowd waiting for various flights out, this doesn’t seem to be […]
Read More »Early in the morning we left the mainland in Cornwall and headed for St Mary’s—one of the Isles of Scilly. Thanks of course to Michael for driving us to the docks in Cornwall so we were able to catch a boat to St Mary’s. . The boat trip was 3 hours long and the sea was […]
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