2025, Here We Come! - Romance Writers Weekly - #lovechatwrite

Welcome to the new year! We’re ready and raring to go here on the blog hop. But we’re starting with an easy one:

What are you looking forward to most in 2025?

I am so fortunate to have three amazing things to look forward to this year.

Grandbaby #4 is expected the end of this month.

Grandbaby #5 is expected end in early June.

And in between those two wonderful events Mr. C and I will be spending four weeks in Portugal!

Technically, we’ve been to Portugal before, when we visited the Azores with his family in 2013. But this time we are going to the mainland. We’ll spend a few days in Lisbon after we arrive. Then we have booked a week-long walking tour of the Algarve, where we travel on foot from village to village while our luggage is transported. We’ve never done anything like that before and we are both super excited. After, we’ll recuperate with five days at a beach town, before taking the train to Porto, where top of  my list to visit is the Livraria Lello. This is reputed to be the most beautiful bookstore in the world – AND is famous for being an inspiration for JK Rowling while she wrote the Harry Potter series. We’re following this up with a few days at another beach town on the central coast and then a couple more days in Lisbon before flying home.

I may have written more about Portugal than the grandbabies. But you know family is most important. It’s just I have a lot less control over what happens with them, LOL!
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How about you? Any special plans for 2025? Share below, and then hop over to Leslie Hachtel!

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