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Peniche on Portugal’s Silver Coast has the best waves I’ve ever seen. Huge waves. Fast, barreling waves. The kind that will whip you off your feet. Tube waves that surfers travel half-way across the world to find. Indeed, surfers are everywhere. Tall, bronzed, with chiseled good looks. Barefoot and bare-chested. But I didn’t come here to surf. For the past few days, I’ve been...
This is Lisbon in June and the busy summer tourist season is in full swing. That means that if you don't want to wait in a queue or put your name on a waitlist, you need to compromise. (It took me a good 30 minutes to find my Pollock jewel.) Ten years ago, an establishment like this would have been far more commonplace. But today it's the exception. A relic from Lisbon's...
CNN got it wrong…They called this place "Little America," saying that a "wave of mostly Americans" have rolled into town. But so far, I see little evidence of it. Here in Sambuca di Sicilia on the island of Sicily, the Italians are still very much in the majority. Indeed, in two days I haven't seen an American flag or heard a single American accent.
Dalmatia, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, is an extraordinary island-speckled coast that stretches from the Croatian town of Zadar to the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro. It offers one of Europe’s most dramatic shorelines, encompassing enchanting cities such as Split, Sibenik, and Dubrovnik. Its coastal mountains sweep down towards a lush seaboard...
All roads lead to Rome, but I was driving in the wrong direction. The hot and dusty chaos of the Italian capital disappeared from my rear view mirror. Heading eastward, I was entering a different kind of Italy. Green, mountainous, traditional, and laidback. An Italy still somewhat undiscovered by the masses who take to the Amalfi Coast, the Lake region...
Paul O’Sullivan joined our band of merry travelers in 2017 as the managing editor of Fund Your Life Overseas and Incomes Abroad. A graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway, he holds a BA in New Media and English and an MA in Literature and Publishing. Paul has traveled much of Europe, and having Read more...: Paul O’Sullivan