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Portugal

Bread-and-flowers eye candy hides strength at Festa dos Tabuleiros

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Balance isn’t the only challenge – it clearly takes arm, shoulder and neck strength to keep a 33-pound vertical “tray” of bread and flowers on your head as you parade through the streets of Tomar during the Festa dos Tabuleiros.

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Spain

Nun cookies and more: 11 Madrid details shine

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We bought cookies from cloistered nuns, rejoiced at inclusive crosswalk lights, stumbled upon book stalls, and found the mouse tooth fairy’s door. Madrid’s details loom large.

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Travel musings

20th anniversary of our round-the-world adventure

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Twenty years ago, we took our three kids out of school and set off on a round-the-world trip, homeschooling them for an entire school year.

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