http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime Eric & Ellyse's Travel Blog Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't know what happened to the last week.  It flew by and I can’t believe we’re heading north already. We left the warmth of Albufeira and headed to Evora for two nights. There are historical sights in this area that range from a six thousand year old stone circle ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/time-warp.html I don’t have much to report in this post.  Thanks to a generous friend, we are spending the week near Albufeira, a beach town along the south coast of Portugal.  The weather has been sunny and warm, and we’ve been enjoying the ocean views and downtime.  We did take a ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/working-on-my-tan.html We’ve been chasing the sun and trying to stay enough ahead of a storm system to find a little warm weather.  I think we finally achieved it when we arrive in Portugal.  We spent three days in the capital, Lisbon wandering the streets and taking a side trip to Sintra.   Sintra ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/moor-or-less.html On our way to Portugal, we took a few days to go through Spain.  We’ll be coming back here later, but thought we should break up the drive with a little sightseeing along the way.  Our first stop was San Sebastian and although the weather didn’t cooperate for much outdoor ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/hola.html November 1st was the anniversary of when we left to start our trip around the world. It’s hard to believe that it has been a whole year already. I’m very glad that we decided to extend our travels by 3 more months because I’m not quite ready to come home ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/halftime/overtime.html