"What's He Going To Do in Portugal?"

FOTP Monday for . . . December 16th, 2024

Let me not bury the lede: I’m moving to Portugal in February. Melissa is coming, as well, but not until this summer after Gregory graduates from high school. He wants to stay in Tulsa, go to school locally, live at home, rent out the other bedrooms to his friends for fun and profit, and turn it into Delta Tau Chi House.

We all need plans.

Melissa and I will be living, at least initially, in Coimbra, a college town — one of the oldest college towns in Europe.

This from Rick Steves

A couple of hours north of Lisbon, Coimbra is the Oxford or Cambridge of Portugal — the home of its most venerable university. It's also the country's easiest-to-enjoy city — a mini-Lisbon, with everything good about urban Portugal without the intensity of a big metropolis. I couldn't design a more delightful city for a visit.

And Steves isn’t allowed to lie about such things.

Before you ask — and it’s something I keep asking, reminding myself — Não foi só Trump

("It Wasn't Just Trump")

More on that in a moment.

Let me back up.