It's been exactly a month since I boarded a plane to meet up with my bro-in-law Steve Rombough in Lisbon, Portugal for a week of exploring, laughing, eating drinking and relaxing. It's always nice to have some time before reflection on a trip like this because you're not clouded by the recency affect and don't have a good sense of how it compares to real life until you've distanced yourself from the experience.