The last of the food from my Europe trip.

213. Thursday, September 3 - I had some breakfast from a couple of different street vendors in the old city of Barcelona.

214. Thursday, September 3 - I had lunch at a European fast food joint called Pan in the Barcelona Airport.

215. Friday, September 4 - My hotel in Granada had a solid breakfast ( Read more... )

More food in Europe. Unless otherwise noted, chains include breakfasts at chain hotels.

183. Tuesday, August 25 - Breakfast at my chain hotel in Lyon.

184. Tuesday, August 25 - I had gelato for a mid-afternoon snack.

185. Tuesday, August 25 - I had dinner at a pizza joint called La Squadra Pizza (or some such thing).

186. Wednesday, August 26 ( Read more... )

It's been a few months since my my last post in part because I couldn't figure out what to write about the places I ate out in Europe. I have a list of restaurants, but I lack context. Were they chains? Well, sometimes, probably, I'm not sure for others. And I ate a lot of random street food. So the numbers get all screwed up again. In the interest ( Read more... )

I spent 4.5 weeks in Europe in 2015. I then wrote about it for the better part of 2016. This post links all of my summaries and related photos in one place ( Read more... )

Since January I've been summarizing each day of my 2015 sabbatical. To the best of my knowledge, everything is as accurate as I can make it. I brought a notebook with me on the trip and every night I summarized the day's events. I used those notes to post all my photos in the month after I returned, when everything was still reasonably fresh in my ( Read more... )

My last full day in Portugal was also the last day of my trip. On the morning of the 9th I didn't do anything more exciting than take the train to the airport. After an extensive grilling by a security agent before I was even allowed to check my bag I made it on board my flight to Newark with no hassle whatsoever ( Read more... )

I'd hit many of the highlights in Lisbon so for my last full day in Europe I decided to take some advice from gieves and take a bus tour out to the coast.

The tour didn't leave until noon, so I headed to the Museum of Fado. Fado is the folk music of Portugal and was referenced on tourist materials throughout Lisbon like the memorial garden to Amalia ( Read more... )

On Sunday, I rode buses and boats around Lisbon on a hot summer day full of tourists. Monday was cooler and less crowded, so I set out on foot to check out some things I'd glimpsed from the bus.

First I headed north along Avenue de Liberdade to a garden memorializing fadista Amalia Rodrigues. She is and always will be the greatest fadista, and ( Read more... )

I woke up in Lisbon. After breakfast I walked one block over was the Avenue de Liberdade, which is a wide park-like boulevard heading down to the Praça do Comércio on the Tagus River. And I do mean down. Lisbon is quite hilly. It quickly became apparent that randomly wandering around was going to be very tiring. I decided to reuse the Barcelona ( Read more... )

After a long day in the Alhambra, it was nice to get off my feet for a day as I traveled via plane to Lisbon.

The first part of the trip went according to plan. I rose early, enjoyed an excellent breakfast at the hotel, and then cabbed it to the Granada airport.
The first leg of my flight was back to Barcelona. I finished reading the copy of the ( Read more... )