Porto

Porto

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We went into this part of our trip with zero recommendations from friends so I was pretty worried it would just wander aimlessly and be a mistake to add to our itinerary since there was still so much to see in Lisbon...happy to say I was wrong! It ended up being our favourite city.









We fell in love the city immediately. It was all dressed up for Christmas and even though it was the

La Sagrada Familia

La Sagrada Familia

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We got on the Hop on-Hop Off tour bus from Plaza Catalunya to get to La Sagrada Familia (no. 5 on TripAdvisor's recent Traveler's Choice list of Top 25 Landmarks of the World!)



Even if you see all the pictures, nothing compares to standing in front of Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece (still incomplete...decades later)



We stepped off the bus and our mouths were just hanging open the whole time.

Family Visit to London - Feb 2015

Family Visit to London - Feb 2015

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We wanted to show off our city to our first family visitor! 



We walked from the Waterloo Bridge to the Shard. It's about a mile and a half walk along the river Thames so we got to see some iconic London sights on the 30 min walk on the Southbank. 





First stop: Get the view from the Top of the Shard. This is the tallest building in Western Europe. It houses a hotel, corporate offices and