Happy Holidays to everyone. I know 2023 has been quite a year and a rollercoaster one for me. But ending it with a few trips is always good.
Because my company is on a Christmas/New Year's shutdown mode, I've decided to take a trip during Christmas as well. For over a year, I've done quite some research on the climate of Spain & also Portugal. It will certainly not be hot weather, but it will be very mild weather (similar to the Bay Area weather, maybe a little warmer). Madrid may be colder on the other hand (but still mild) since that's a highland.
We decided to go to Barcelona for Christmas, spend 3 days, then go to Portugal and bring in the New Year back in Madrid. The trip will start tomorrow, so going to put a few early on posts for the trip.
Also. the last time we went to Europe was back in 2005, when I was in middle school. That time, we went in August 2005 to both UK (London) & France (Paris) and came back to the UK. To go to Paris at the time was by Eurostar. Unfortunately, back then we had no cameras on our phones like today and the pictures we took, probably lost them. My mom has been bugging for the last 10 years hoping to go to Europe again (given we're so used to going to India, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore) so we decided to make it happen.
Hope everyone has a great and safe holiday ahead!
Because my company is on a Christmas/New Year's shutdown mode, I've decided to take a trip during Christmas as well. For over a year, I've done quite some research on the climate of Spain & also Portugal. It will certainly not be hot weather, but it will be very mild weather (similar to the Bay Area weather, maybe a little warmer). Madrid may be colder on the other hand (but still mild) since that's a highland.
We decided to go to Barcelona for Christmas, spend 3 days, then go to Portugal and bring in the New Year back in Madrid. The trip will start tomorrow, so going to put a few early on posts for the trip.
Also. the last time we went to Europe was back in 2005, when I was in middle school. That time, we went in August 2005 to both UK (London) & France (Paris) and came back to the UK. To go to Paris at the time was by Eurostar. Unfortunately, back then we had no cameras on our phones like today and the pictures we took, probably lost them. My mom has been bugging for the last 10 years hoping to go to Europe again (given we're so used to going to India, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore) so we decided to make it happen.
Hope everyone has a great and safe holiday ahead!
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