Reading Time: 4 minutesOpting to travel by private car can be a more time and cost-efficient way of moving throughout a country. It also gives you greater access to hard-to-reach, off-the-beaten track towns that may provide insight into a country’s character beyond the major cities.
Below we share our process for gathering car rental quotes and how we organized our findings for later reference.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this post we describe the differences between a travel converter and adapter.
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post we share photos of our first experience harvesting pomegranates from a mature tree on the property and include a recipe for pomegranate jelly.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share photos of our first experience growing and harvesting pumpkins.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this post we share the items we keep in our car that have proven helpful on a day-to-day and emergency basis.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this post we share our preferred lightweight packing guide for a three day, two night weekend getaway.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share a brief history of watermelons, photos of homegrown watermelons being harvested, and a recipe for fresh watermelon juice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share photos of year-round interest plants that enhance a permaculture effort based in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 9.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we share photos that demonstrate how Northern California’s wildfires have impacted the San Francisco Bay Area’s sky.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we share how growth has progressed in a permaculture effort based in the Big Basin foothills of Northern California, United States of America.
If you have not already, check out the first and second post in this series.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we describe how we made limoncello and share a recipe from the Amalfi Coast, Italy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share a brief history of apricots in the United States and a three-ingredient apricot sorbet recipe.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post we share more photos of a permaculture effort based in the Big Basin foothills of Northern California, United States of America.
Reading Time: 8 minutesIn this post we share photos from a day at TerrAzoia, an organic farm that is nestled in the Sintra-Cascais Nature Park, Portugal.
We participated in two cooking classes: traditional Portuguese and Tunisian cuisine. During our midday break we hiked through the nature park to a lookout that offered sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean.
Reading Time: 14 minutesWhen in Portugal, add a few days to your itinerary to include time in the Douro Valley, home to the port industry. We’ve included a number of itineraries that account for different time tables (ranging from a day trip to three nights in the area).
In this post we describe our visit to five quintas, mostly in the subregion Cima Corgo, Douro Valley. We also include information about port, the Douro Valley & its UNESCO Heritage status.
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