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Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Three
April 9 – 10 We’d met our guide for the medina at the Bab Bou Jeloud City Gate and he led us through the street that comprised the Jewish quarter where we climbed back into the van for a ride out to the Art Naji Pottery and Tile shop, first stopping at an overlook that […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Two
April 9 – 10 Leaving Moulay Idriss, it was a short drive to Volubilis, a partly excavated Berber-Roman city that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania. Built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian settlement before being the capital of […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part One
April 9 – 10 As mentioned in the earlier post, we were scheduled to meet with our tour group at 6:00pm in Cities, the hotel restaurant. Joanna and I went downstairs a few minutes early and finding seats at one of the tables, ordered a drink apiece while we waited to start. Mine would be […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Casablanca
April 7 – 8 We landed in Casablanca, cleared customs, retrieved our bags and exiting looked around for the driver who was to meet us. For this tour, and many others, Intrepid included free pickup from the airport if you were being transported to the lodging provided for by the tour. Since we were coming […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part Two
April 4-6 We left the Falconry and walked a short distance to the stables, a long building with stalls lining each side, each with a window to the outdoors. Most held a horse with a sign on the wall indicating their name and the feed mixture they would be consuming each day. Four of the […]
Europe 2025 – Alter Real and Comporta, Part One
April 4-6 We would leave Lisbon the next morning and journey not quite three hours for a two-night stay at Alter Real, part of the Hotel Vila Gale Collection. This part of the trip was behind the whole reason to begin with, that is for Jessica, Gemma and Kris to attend the wedding of their […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Three
April 1-3 We were up and out early for our planned day trip to Sintra through Viator on their Sintra Highlights and Pena Palace Full-Day Tour. Joanna and I visited this area in 2014 but did not take a tour. Instead, we drove our car out to the coast and parked near the lighthouse there […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Two
April 1-3 The walk back to the apartment with Jessica, Gemma, Kim and Joanna took most of the rest of the afternoon due to the distance involved and the need to do some extensive window shopping along the way. Partway back we stropped in the Santa Maria Major neighborhood on its bustling pedestrian Augusta Street […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part One
April 1-3 Our drive to Lisbon today would take under four hours of driving time and we decided, based on a Rick Steves recommendation, to make a stop in Coimbra which was about halfway in the journey. To accomplish this easily Marty booked us a ride with a driver that would take us to Coimbra, […]
Europe 2025 Porto, Part Three
March 26-30 Jessica felt much better the next day and was able to join us as we set out on a Hop on Hop Off bus experience that would lead to a day of fun and adventure. Our first stop would be across the river in the suburb known as the Lodges of Gaia. In […]
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