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 We just couldn't get enough of Iceland, and the way our tickets were booked, we could take a 4-day layover in Reykjavik for no extra ch...

 Porto was so amazing, it was difficult to imagine what could top that experience. We shouldn’t have doubted. Another of the wonderful black...

 I miss our Galeon peeps every day ... but not for breakfast! Sydney has been genius about finding us hotels that include breakfast, from lo...

 We had far more opportunities to dig into culture in Porto than we had time, so we picked our top three. First up was this bookstore (you w...

 We were absolutely smitten by Porto. Not in an I-could-see-us-living-here way, but just in a deep appreciation for the unique vibe way. I...

 Our next city wasn't about tourism so much as it was seeing some longtime friends. Though there was some tourism anyway, Portugal is a ...

 Annnnd… on to Portugal. Just a quick trip from neighboring Spain. Much as we'd enjoyed it, we were anxious for some cooler weather. But...

 So much of Spain (and we would later learn, Portugal) uses tile for a building material. Easy to see why -- strong, durable, insect- and wa...

After ten years working on ships owned by the Fundación Nao Victoria, we were finally (!!) going to have a chance to visit their home office...

 One of the more touristy things we did was a bus trip to Córdoba, another site of many antiquities about an hour and a half drive from Sevi...