Croatia’s capital city of Zagreb has a modern airport which makes a positive first impression even in bad weather. We have grown accustomed to arriving in the rain lately but for the first time in our travels we took a taxi to our hotel instead of walking (okay, we had a rental car in Iceland …
Month: November 2022
North to go South We checked out of our apartment after 25 days in Pontevedra and walked to the train station one last time for a 1:30 pm train to Madrid. In addition to our numerous walks in Pontevedra, which often took us past the train station, we also made this walk each time we …
We designed our trip with the idea of staying in one place for a month in order to de-compress following a busy and dynamic initial six weeks of travel. We also wanted to pursue some personal and professional goals in tandem with our travels and decided homesteading would help achieve those goals. We chose Pontevedra, …
Porto is the second largest city in Portugal and has a busy airport. Portugal Air has a business model similar to Iceland Air allowing a “free” long layover in Lisbon or Porto. If you ever have the chance to spend a day in Porto, take it! This is a fun to explore and extremely forgiving …
O Grove, Cambados, Vigo, A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, and Lugo As much as we love Pontevedra, we couldn’t bear the thought of being so close to other sites in Galicia and not visiting them. We rented a car from 9 am on a Saturday until 9 am the following Wednesday in late October. During …