Lisbon → Coimbra → Porto | November 15–27, 2026 Life has thrown me a few curveballs lately. My October travel plans changed. And changed again. And eventually disappeared altogether. Then there was April. I had planned another beautiful European adventure, but life changed, and I canceled it. Then, as life sometimes does, it changed again—and it turned out I could have kept those plans after all. But that's okay. Things change. Life does what life does. And sometimes the love

One year ago, I was saying goodbye to a relationship that had once been filled with love. We had spent two wonderful years building a life together, sharing a home and dreaming about a future. What followed was nearly another year of untangling ourselves from a heartbreak that never seemed to end all at once. Just when I felt as though I had finally found solid ground again, another little tug on my heart would pull me back into the uncertainty. Heartbreak has a funny way of