Author: Brynn
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TukTuks and Alfama
The kids were understandably exhausted the day after they hiked 10km up and down incredibly steep hills so we were pretty slow to get going the next day. We had been wanting to check out the Time Out market which was just down the street and tour around Alfama, the…
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Sintra
About 40 minutes outside of Lisbon is a little village called Sintra. It’s set way up in the hills, which says a lot since everything is a hill. It was once considered the summer retreat for Lisbon’s elite. It now boasts a village of preserved real life castles and manors…
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Blue and bouncy castles
The forecast was calling for rain so we thought it would be a good chance to drive around and see some different sights. We still needed to find Madeline a jacket, apparently she outgrew hers from last year! Since we had the car we drove out to Primark to find…
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Jardim da Estrala
If you look up best playground in Lisbon the Jardim da Estrala makes almost every list. The playground itself is set inside a nice little garden that has you feeling completely removed from a city. We took the very popular 28E tram from basically right outside our door to the…
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5km in 5h
We drove from Madrid to Lisbon yesterday so we had a fairly uneventful day. The drive went pretty smoothly – we stopped for lunch at a “diner” on the side of the highway. Apparently my Spanish is only fair since I ended up ordering two chicken breasts on a baguette…
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Madrid
After a long day of travel (8+ hour layover in Toronto 😐) we made it to Madrid. We made it through all the boring, time consuming necessities – got our car, set up our phones and headed to our hotel. Since we are only in the city two nights we…
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Up in smoke
We stopped for the night in Saint-Hyacinthe, just east of Montreal. It would leave us just shy of 11 hours of driving left for the next day. We got settled into the hotel around 1030, successfully transferring all three sleeping children (no small feat) and got some rest before our…
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Ottawa
With the promise of more rain Saturday we packed up the car and headed out of Toronto first thing in the morning. We thought it might be nice to break up the drive by spending the afternoon in Ottawa. It didn’t disappoint. It was a gorgeous spring day in the…
Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids 