Praca De Restaudores, a central square downtown. And the only one not under major construction when we were there. The weather was terrible, and we didn’t enjoy ourselves much. Maybe we were just blase after we had seen so many beautiful things in Spain and France, but nothing a

Designated a World Heritage site by the United Nations, Evora is known as the "Museum City". Despite the billing,it didn't do much for us, and We moved on pretty quickly. Our next stop was Evora. The train left on time, and we had to change trains once. The second train

We stopped in Faro overnight. It's the capital city of the Algarve, Portugal's southern coast. This is the harbour. Faro is mainly a jumping-off point for the Algarve coast. There isn’t much to see or do there, and we’re glad we didn’t stay that long. We had

We spent 5 days in Portugal in April 2001. Our visit was part of a 3 week vacation in Spain and Morocco. We are very ‘focused’ travelers, arriving in each city with a list of places to see, and we’ll move along fast if something doesn’t grab us. Especially in a

We arrived in Casablanca after taking a morning train from Marrakech. We had 5 hours before our plane left to take us back to Madrid, and so we only had time to see one destination: of course, the Hassan II mosque. This Mosque is the only Mosque in all of Morocco that is open to the p

We visited Barcelona in March 2001 for 3 days. It is the most interesting and captivating city we saw in Spain. (sorry, Madrid!) Getting there This is the monument to Columbus at the other end of Las Ramblas. It proudly points towards Libya. Oops. This is Barcelona’s biggest dra

Sunday we visited the Memorial de Caen. It’s a museum which relates the events which lead up to the D-Day landing, and has a memorial to the Canadian and American soldiers in the gardens behind it. The British are currently building a memorial. More Canadians were actually kille

Memorial to the parachutists. For Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day (November 11th), we spent the weekend visiting the D-Day Beaches in Normandy.  We started at a memorial to the parachutists who landed near Sainte Mere-Eglise. One of them got stuck on the church

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