Around Our e-Table
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Around Our e-Table is a place where winding roads, rusty rails, iffy health and lean budget meet the calm
Around Our e-Table
1w ago
Storyline: Portugal Take 2 In a year Porto has changed. The streets are steeper and the up-hills are longer. We stay with the same people. Loved their studio and the location. That grocery store around the corner is now perched on a steep hill far away. The eclair place, just some 500m away, is very far ..read more
Around Our e-Table
1M ago
Storyline: Portugal Take 2 Lisbon We arrived in Lisbon exactly a year after we there in January 2023. Arranged to stay with our old hosts with whom we had kept in touch. Nice little apartment but why are the stairs steeper than last year? Lisbon met us with a light fog which made for good photos ..read more
Around Our e-Table
1M ago
Storyline: Portugal Take 2 While sick in bed for over a week, finished the 3 of José Saramago’s (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1998) books, we bought from bookstore Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. Can’t decide if Death at Intervals or Blindness takes the first prize, but leaning towards Blindness. Back to writing ..read more
Around Our e-Table
2M ago
Storyline: Portugal Take 2 Life got in the way and we haven’t posted anything for a long time. We are currently in Coimbra, the medieval capital of Portugal, its steep hills rising from the Rio Mondego. The scenic views from the oldest Portuguese university, and one of the oldest in the world, perched on the ..read more
Around Our e-Table
5M ago
We’ve been travelling for over 2 weeks in Europe. By the end of our short journey, we’ll visit 6 countries. Usually our travel is slower, however the goal of this trip is to visit friends in Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. We have a return flight from Amsterdam. And along the way we stopped in Germany ..read more
Around Our e-Table
6M ago
Storyline: Westward Ho! It’s not exactly stolen or borrowed, since I was already writing of “The red sun”. But I am months and many posts behind. When the sky and the sun turned red in Kelowna, a city in BC we passed through while camping in the Okanagan area, an article in The Globe and ..read more
Around Our e-Table
6M ago
Storyline: Westward Ho! Fri, Jul 14 We head back. Eh, not due to the looming emergency yet. After breakfast we fill Doranya up with water (who knows where the next refill will be?), dump the holding tanks, disconnect and head up the hill to the highway. Driving through Kelowna is frustrating. Have the feeling we ..read more
Around Our e-Table
6M ago
Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jul 11 As mentioned in some previous posts we still hadn’t realised the gravity of the wildfires around us and how the smoke from them was affecting us. In the morning Alex felt well (he’d say he never felt unwell, except for the coughing) and we decided to head south to ..read more
Around Our e-Table
6M ago
Storyline: Westward Ho! Tue, Jul 11 and Jul 14 We didn’t stay in Kelowna and in hindsight it was a good thing that I could not book a campground there. But we drove through it on the way into and out of the Peachland RV Park, where we had booked 3 nights. Hills. Bare. Dry ..read more
Around Our e-Table
6M ago
Storyline: Westward Ho! Sat, Jul 8 Despite the smoke and red sun, when visible, we were still in the lull before the storm that was developing around us. Wildfires. Today we are heading towards Prince George. From Kitwanga this is the only way towards home. We’ll decide on the next leg when at Prince George ..read more