On County Highway M between Elcho and Highway 17 in Langlade County there is a sign pointing down a private road to “Knights Templar”. When visiting the cloister in Tomar, Portugal, a man who sounded American asked me if I was a Mason. There is a mystique concerning the Templars which is alive today. (Thus… Read more

This blog post is about the national Museum de Machado de Castro, which is built on top of the Roman city of Aeminium, which is now in the center of the university of Coimbra. What now appears to be tunnels and chambers originally supported the forum in the city of Aeminium which was authorized to… Read more

The reason we chose to go to Coimbra was that we wanted to visit one of the oldest universities in Europe. As we had previously visited Braga, where the first king of Portugal was born and where he fought his first battles, here Combria became the countries first capital city where the Kings resided, and… Read more