Twelve days: Our plan for our time in Madagascar!

I know I still have one more post to write about Portugal, but I’m just too excited to write about Madagascar, and so I’m going to skip ahead to that for the time being. When we were doing our travel planning it was the hardest to figure out what to do for our time in Madagascar, so I…

Portugal sightseeing: the countryside and more beaches!

After a great five days in the Algarve, it was time to move onto the next phase of our Portugal sightseeing. We were headed to a couple great rural areas and then, after some time in Lisbon and other cities, we headed to some other beaches as well. So, let’s go! As we drove out of the Algarve the…

Croatia recap: What we loved (and didn’t love) during our three weeks of Croatia travel!

Even though these posts take us out of the flow of “real-time” a little bit, I really enjoy writing (and later reading) our country summary posts, so I today I am writing a recap about our Croatia travel! In case you are interested, here are links to our previous recaps – Brazil recap, Italy recap (we didn’t write…

Five days in the Algarve (the south of Portugal)!

After an awesome ten days in Norway and a super fun weekend with Poops in Oslo, it was time to head to the sixth country on our around-the-world adventure, Portugal! I had been to Lisbon before and Damian had been to a bunch of the country, but we were excited to return and experience it together. And, the…

Our long weekend in Oslo, Norway with Pooja!

Well well, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus haven’t we? Sorry about going dark for a bit – we took a quick hop back to the US to attend a friend’s wedding and to see some additional friends and family, so I’ve been off the computer most of that time. But now I’m…