Month: May 2015

Praia João d’Arens

Jordan Schwartz May 24, 2015May 24, 2015 1 Comment

We’ve made our way down from Lisbon to the southern coast of Portugal (the Algarve) for some beach and sunshine before we finish up our trip in chilly Amsterdam. Our first stop is in Lagos (pronounced “Lagoosh”), a bit...

Colares

Jordan Schwartz May 20, 2015May 22, 2015 Leave a Comment

One of our favorite traveling tricks is to take a trip within the trip. We leave most of our things at our apartment, book a second AirBnB apartment somewhere nearby, and take a vacation! It sounds expensive, but it’s not:...

Lisboa

Jordan Schwartz May 17, 2015January 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

When we first started our adventure, we promised not to skim, bouncing from photo opp to photo opp, checking things off the bucket list. We wanted to go deep, live somewhere different, not just visit somewhere different. Seville, at...

Inshallah

Jordan Schwartz May 11, 2015May 12, 2015 Leave a Comment

When we were planning our Morocco trip, we reached out to the Facebook Brain Trust for advice on where to travel. A number of friends volunteered what was likely great advice: Essaouira on the coast has been occupied since paleolithic...

Fez

Jordan Schwartz May 3, 2015May 3, 2015 1 Comment

We took a detour south to Fez, Morocco this week to spend some time with our friends Marcus, Amy and their three-year-old son Luca. We’re staying in the Medina, the old section of this thousand-year-old city in a riad,...

Tech Travel Tools

Jordan Schwartz May 1, 2015May 2, 2015 Leave a Comment

When we took our three month trip to Europe in 2007, the iPhone revolution was just brewing (I got my first one in January 2008, after we returned). For that trip, we had one cell phone between us, for...