Why Portugal?
Tomorrow morning, I leave for a three week vacation in Portugal. The question I’ve received more in the last week than any other is: Why Portugal?
When I’ve gone to London or Paris, I’ve never received this question. Not even Tokyo, but when we went to Seoul I got the same questions.
The true answer: Why not?
I like traveling and it’s better going to countries I haven’t visited before. We were negotiating a location and each of our dream destinations fell by the wayside. For Adam it’s Greece. For me it’s Australia. Randomly, we discussed Macao and Goa and realized those two areas had one thing in common, Portuguese colonization.
We figured why not go for the real thing. Portugal has a lot going for it as a vacation destination: temperate weather, a vibrant capitol city, and for DH, castles, castles, and more castelos. He likes ancient ruins and it seems that Portugal will have that in spades. We’ll be driving to every eroding brick in the country, if my itinerary is correct.
It may not be traditional, but nothing else in my life has been so far, so why start now.
