Category Destinations

TAP Offers Portugal Stopover and New Planes

Portugal Stopver First, let’s start with the addition of the Portugal stopover program that TAP has recently added. Some readers will be familiar with similar programs offered in London through British Airways, or Reykjavik via several Icelandic carriers such as Iceland…

Eating Snails (Caracóis) in Portugal

Snails in Portugal

Snails known as Caracóis here are served throughout the summer in pretty much every cafe in Portugal. It is a staple food that we would equate to a happy hour dish. Generally consumed with a nice cold beer such as…

Stay and Play in Magnificent Monterey

Monterey Bay

Though we’ve visited Monterey several times, it never ceases to amaze us how each time we’re drawn to it like moths to a flame. Perhaps it’s the grey marine layer that often smothers the California coastal peninsula like a cool…