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Park Bar – Lisbon, Portugal

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Our final night in Lisbon, we watched the sunset from Park Bar! I actually discovered Park Bar on Instagram (searching hashtags and geotags for a city before your next big trip can really pay off!) and fell in love with the gorgeous views over the city and the 25th of April bridge. Despite the fact […]

Our 5 Wedding Anniversary Session with Love is My Favorite Color – Cascais, Portugal

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One of the best decision’s I made when planning our Anniversary trip to Portugal was booking a session with Rui and Cristiana, the photography duo that makes up Love is My Favorite Color. I’d been toying with the idea of surprising Tanner with a session while on our trip & I loved the idea of […]

5 Steps to an Enjoyable Morning in Lisbon

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Step 1 – Find a local cafe, avoid the fish pastry (yep, it’s a thing & Tanner unfortunately “ordered” it on accident one morning) and enjoy a local European breakfast of pastry and espresso! Step 2 – Watch the hustle and bustle of people going to work and school while surrounded by picturesque tiles (Ambiance […]

Pena Palace – Sintra, Portugal

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After our exploration of the Moorish Castle, we visited the gorgeous & colorful Pena Palace in Sintra. The Pena Palace is one of the seven wonders of Portugal & also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We walked through some of the lovely gardens leading up to the Palace (would have loved more time to really […]

Moorish Castle – Sintra, Portugal

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Only about a 30 minute train ride from Lisbon, visiting Sintra felt like stepping into another world! Located in the Sintra mountain range, the temperatures were cooler, and the clouds & mist gave the area a feeling of mystery! Sintra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and both Tanner & I named our day in […]

Downtown Lisbon, Portugal

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Lisbon is gorgeous – positioned on the Tagus River, it spawls across seven hills (yes, like Rome).  It has some of the mildest (and nicest, if you ask me) weather of all of Europe & an incredible amount of sunny days per year! The weather was seriously fantastic for the duration of our trip! And, […]

Belém, Portugal

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After a lovely Sunday morning spent exploring the halls of the Gulbenkian Museum (Sundays until 2 p.m. the museum has free admission!), we headed over to explore Belém – site to some of Portugal’s most famous attractions including the Jerónimos Monastery, Monument to the Discoveries and the Tower of Belém. No visit to Belém would be […]

St. George Castle, Alfama & Graça – Portugal

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After the first day spent exploring the neighborhood around where we were staying, we decided to explore St. George’s Castle and the old neighborhoods surrounding it. After taking the Metro from Avenida da Liberdade to the city centre, we started the trek up to the Castle by walking through the neighborhood of Graça. It’s charming […]

The Neighborhood – Avenida da Liberdade, Lisbon – Portugal

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As you may remember from last week’s post, our Apartment for the Portugal trip was in the very convenient neighborhood adjacent to the Avenida da Liberdade. It’s said that the Avenida was designed after the Champs-Elysees in Paris, but it definitely has it’s own Portuguese spin! We saw gorgeous tiles all over Lisbon, but along […]

Our Airbnb in Lisbon, Portugal

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Hi, friends! Welcome to another Travel Tuesday! Today I’m officially starting the Portugal series with a look at where we stayed for our anniversary trip! If you’ve been following along, you already know my love for Airbnb, so when it came time to plan our Portugal trip, I started perusing the site for the perfect […]

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