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I have been enjoying Porto, Portugal for a couple days and am currently on the train for a little day trip up the Duoro river valley. Yesterday I enjoyed wandering around Porto and the neighboring Villa Nova de Gaia (where I am actually staying). The whole area is endearingly cute with narrow multistorey houses in…

1. You are sincerely thinking about throwing away half of your possessions. 2. You think anything that weighs more than 1 pound is way too heavy. 3. You have ever said, “only” 20 kilometers, like that’s a short walking distance. 4. You have sore back muscles that you didn’t even know existed. 5. You are…

I just spent the past few days walking the Camino de Santiago from San Sebastian to Bilbao. I just arrived in Bilbao this morning at 9:30 and I am now on a plane to Porto, Portugal at 1:30pm. As you already know if you read my previous post, the first three days of walking were…

From Madrid I flew to San Sebastian to meet up with friends and begin walking the northern route of the Camino de Santiago. I suspected I was getting the flu by the end of the day in Madrid, after waking up with a terrible headache and throwing up all morning. I told myself, “it’s jet…

I spent yesterday doing what I love most when traveling, wandering around exploring somewhere new. For me, it seems like Madrid has limited sightseeing tourist stops. It has 3 ultra famous museums and lots of plazas, but that’s about it. For me, I pass on the museums in general. In my opinion, the outdoors, the…

I started a tiny little fire in my hotel room this morning.😞 But let me back up…. So, today I am in Barajas Spain, which used to be a small village outside Madrid…now it is the neighborhood next to the Madrid airport. Cute place tho! Anyway, so I had my mini freak out moment on…