Tag: beaches

  • Summer Beach Shandy

    Summer Beach Shandy

    It’s not the beach of our dreams, or even our memories. But it’s a strip of sand, and a breakwall, then another strip of sand, and another breakwall, and on ’til the channel that runs into the creek behind my mom’s house on the Northern Neck. Mirra loves to go to the beach–she’ll suck up…

  • Salgados With Sagres

    Salgados With Sagres

    We turned the calendar over Memorial Day earlier this week, and–aside from the solemn honor we pay on that day to our fallen heroes–the day also marks the unofficial beginning of summer in the U.S. It might as well be true in Portugal, as well, because the thermometer has crept back up above 28C over…