Erika and I have said we think we’d have liked Lisbon a lot more if we’d gone there before Porto. As it was, we were high on Porto, and not ready to leave, so Lisbon felt like a bit of a letdown. It didn’t help that we left a fantastic AirBnb in Porto to go to a… not fantastic one. Sorry Ruth, we’re shooting 50% while you’re with us! Also, Lisbon is where I had one of my patented crashes,…
We hated Zanzibar. I’ve thought a lot about how I wanted to construct this blog post and build up to that revelation, but I just don’t want to bury the lede. We didn’t enjoy our time there, and we would not go back, and it’s the only place on our trip so far that we would definitively say we would not go back. So let’s get to Zanzibar, and talk about why we disliked it so much. Getting In We…
We’ll never really know if the apfel strudel woman was right with what she said about Lüderitz, as we never really saw it. We got in after dark, and the next morning we were up early and back on the road, with no time to spend in Lüderitz itself. It seemed cute enough. Though as we saw now driving out in the daylight: the surrounding area is harsh, ugly desert. Sands routinely blow across the roadway and obscure the road….
