Author: Bob

The man on the left is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal. He is setting an example by wearing a mask (shorts optional, but mask and pants required). This…

Portugal just celebrated a national holiday, Freedom Day. April 25th commemorates when a relatively peaceful revolution, known as the Carnation Revolution, toppled the dictatorship in 1974. Unfortunately, this year’s festivities…

First, I would like to give a brief update to the coronavirus in Portugal. We are still on a pretty tight lockdown, although most people are cooperating without need for…

Many people once believed in a flat Earth. Some people STILL believe the Earth is flat! Fortunately, Portuguese discoverers weren’t so gullible over 500 years ago. Prince Henry the Navigator…

It kind of feels that way, doesn’t it? There is an eerie feeling prevalent in the world today that feels a lot like a science fiction movie! The invaders are…

We were driving to meet friends at a beach we had never been to before. Elvira started taking us down gravel roads that kept getting narrower and steeper along a…

One of life’s greatest gifts is the ability to enjoy simple pleasures. Walking on cobblestones is a simple pleasure to me. Although they can be impractical, often uneven and a…

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea,…

Nobody can predict the future. A year and a half ago, I had never stepped foot in Portugal, let alone predict that I would be living here. But here we…

Although I have been touting Portugal as Europe’s affordable Hawaii alternative, I haven’t blogged about that subject until now. I lived in Hawaii for 28 years but I’ve only been…