Mr. & Mrs. Vandebilt + kids

We are absolutely loving the south coast and Portugal. It has basically everything we had been looking for. Sunshine – check. Beaches – check. Cheap food and wine – check.… Read more

Mom and Kayla’s time was winding down in the sun so we thought it was best to get some more beach days in before they headed back to the cold… Read more

After a relaxing day at home on Saturday we felt a little more adventurous on Sunday. We decided to head in and check out Faro, the closest “big” city to… Read more

Since we were going to be spending a couple of weeks on the coast we decided to make sure we had a place that we could just relax in. We… Read more

The closest town to where we are staying is Albufeira. It’s a coastal town that is known for its strip of bars catering to British hen parties. Not really our… Read more

With our time in Lisbon over, we packed up the car and headed for the algarve region on the south coast. We were sad to say tchau to Lisboa but… Read more

We had been saving the oceanarium for our last day in Lisbon since the forecast wasn’t looking great, we knew the kids would be tired and an aquarium is always… Read more

We had been keeping an eye on the wave report for Nazaré all week in hopes of seeing some of the monster waves it’s famous for. Tuesday had the most… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more