by Jane Canapini | Sep 7, 2016 | Attractions, Portugal
Two thousand year-old Roman ruins, a chapel decorated with over 5,000 bodies’ worth of bones, and the chance to wander around on the top of a medieval cathedral/castle: these were just 3 of the reasons why we put Évora on our Portuguese itinerary, and why this small...
by Jane Canapini | Aug 23, 2016 | Attractions, Portugal
Sintra had me at hello. Actually, Sintra had me before that. The first ‘hello’ came when I saw a photo online of an ‘Initiation Well’ located on a 19th-century estate called Quinta da Regaleira. I wasn’t even sure what an...
by Jane Canapini | Aug 11, 2016 | Attractions, Ontario, Toronto
Who knew there was a lavender farm a little over an hour from Toronto? And while it may not have hundreds of acres of purple stretching to the horizon like we’ve seen in those [heavily-retouched] postcards from the south of France, Terre Bleu...
by Jane Canapini | Jul 30, 2016 | Attractions, Curiosities, Portugal
The initiation Well at Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra It’s rare that the same thing that makes me exclaim “I HAVE to see this for myself!” inspires Henk to say the same thing. But that’s what happened when we both saw photos of the Quinta da...
