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Portugal

Walking tour around Alcobaça, my adopted home town

March 15, 2024November 13, 2024 - 11 Comments.

After 20 months in the small town of Alcobaça, I still have “pinch me” moments when I thrill to the knowledge that we’re living in Portugal, in Europe. Let me take you on a walking tour to see the highlights.

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France

I just want to walk around Paris with you: “Midnight in Paris” came to life

December 15, 2023April 10, 2024 - 11 Comments.

I waited on the church steps for the magical Peugeot, the time-travel portal that whisked writer Gil Pender into 1920s Paris to meet Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein in “Midnight in Paris.”

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Croatia

Old-town alleys meander through romantic Croatia

November 4, 2023April 10, 2024 - 9 Comments.

Narrow “streets” lined with honey-coloured stone buildings, colourful shutters, laundry draped overhead, potted flowers, iron coach lanterns – meandering the romantic old-town alleys of Croatia never gets old.

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Netherlands

Potato Eaters, peasants, painting: following Vincent’s footsteps

September 22, 2023January 20, 2026 - 14 Comments.

Tracking Vincent Van Gogh’s footsteps through the southern Netherlands, I sensed that we’d stepped into his paintings.

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