M&R's Vacation Stories

Link to photo album Northern Europe Cruise - April 2024 Bordeaux - Place de la Bourse Day 9 April 28 Day 9 was the first true day of the cruise, but the day was spent traveling from Lisbon, Portugal to Bilboa, Spain. While it seems close on land it was actually going to take the boat 2 days to get there, and thus we had a entire day to ourselves on the boat (along with the other 2500 people). We ended up missing breakfast at one of the restaurants because we slept in and again had to venture into the buffet.  As I noticed on Day 8, the buffet seemed like an area were all the old people congregate, maybe it’s not just that the old people were congregating at the buffet and moreso that the average age on the boat is 65+.  This isn’t really a bad thing, but when walking around you do notice old people blocking your way, everywhere.  Sorry but you’re reading this blog, you get to hear my gripes as it’s heathy for me to vent.  The rest of the day was us hanging out and no...

Link to Photo Album Oporto and Lisboa - Portugal  Porto City Hall Day 1 - April 19-20 Back when I worked at Zeitecs I had a coworker who used to visit Porto, Portugal quite often and it seemed like a favorite place of his so it made it on our list of places that we should visit. With Rebe’s parents being the cruise addicts that they are, they convinced us to do a European cruise and Rebe and I thought we would tack on an extra week to see Porto and Lisbon.  Porto is not an easy place to get to from Houston, well easier if you want to spend a little more money but we cheaped out and took the two stop route through Dallas and Madrid.  No real issues with the travel and we finally arrived in Porto at 440 in the afternoon.  Rebe had found a small hotel in the heart of the city and when we got to the room Rebe’s parents were already waiting on us.   We sat around catching up for a few before going on a stroll over to the “most beautiful library in the world,” Li...