{"id":487422,"date":"2026-05-16T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487422\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T08:33:13","slug":"two-years-ago-i-could-never-have-imagined-completing-a-trip-like-this-how-i-faced-adversity-with-adventure-as-a-single-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/487422\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Two years ago, I could never have imagined completing a trip like this\u2019 \u2013 How I faced adversity with adventure as a single mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Lauren Burnison and her young daughter embark on a winter road trip through Portugal and Spain, facing relentless rain, disrupted plans and the challenges and rewards of solo parenting\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The calm before the storm on the\u00a0southwest coast of Portugal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/edc3e03c-4f14-4b40-9882-3724c9dc62c2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The calm before the storm on the\u00a0southwest coast of Portugal<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s midnight in downtown Coimbra, central Portugal. I\u2019m lying awake in bed as 200kph gusts batter the facade of our little guesthouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Safi, my four-year-old daughter, is out for the count, but I\u2019m struggling to sleep. The gale whistles and howls through narrow cobbled streets like a mythical creature lamenting the death of a loved one. I\u2019ve experienced storms in the region before, but not like this. This feels more sinister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Burnison and her young daughter embark on a winter road trip through Portugal and Spain, facing relentless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,147476,156331,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-487422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-shp","tag-signature-enjoy-life","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116583334684770618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}