News & More
Mindfulness is a buzzword today. It refers to the notion that we should strive to keep our minds fully attending to and totally aware of what’s happening and what we’re doing on a moment-to-moment basis.
News & More
Nope, it’s not Spain. Not Italy. France? Mais non. Europe’s #1 country is… Portugal! That’s what readers of USA Today say: The newspaper has just announced its “10 Best” Readers’ Choice Awards, and Portugal has surpassed the continent’s better-known tourism magnets.
Travel Tips
It’s December 31, the eve of a brand-new year. Time for reflection on the past 12 months and dreams of how we’ll make 2014 even better. And that puts us into the territory of New Year’s resolutions.
Travel Tales
With December’s chill enveloping northern Portugal’s Douro Valley, the searing heat of summer is a faded memory. The dark grapes, hanging heavy on the vines that terrace down the mountains to the river, have been picked and crushed, their fermented juice placed in huge oak casks to spend the winter.
