Our last day! After another lovely breakfast we checked out and they were happy to hold our luggage until we left for our flight that afternoon. We set out early because we had two palaces to visit!


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Sunday, we set off early, saying goodbye to our lovely hotel and a sleepy Bairro Alto, to Rossio station for our train to Sintra.

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Thursday

We had another tour booked, this time with Fundacion En Via, a charity who provide loans and training to help indigenous women set up businesses.  We meet with our small tour group at the beautiful Oaxaca Cultural Institute and set off back down the route towards Hierve El Agua to a small hillside village called San Miguel del Valle.

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Continuing from my last post, staying in beautiful Crickhowell overnight

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We're now into our second month of pretty much non-stop summer. Much as I love the sunshine, I need to be outdoors in it and London was getting to me, so at the last minute, I purchased a couple of days extra leave and booked a Friday off to go away somewhere for the weekend.  The choice was between Peak District or the Brecon Beacons and as there ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks back I went back to Dundee for my graduation.  Would have liked to have made a holiday of it but due to lack of leave, we had to keep it to a long weekend, regardless it was good to return there!

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