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Background: Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil as a colony. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades, repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year, Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.

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By Steph and Sherrie 08
August 16th 2008

The Atlantic Ocean is freezing - regardless of what Sherrie might say!

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Portugal has been great - very relaxing. We decided not to go to Lisbon but instead spend our time in the Algarve, an area on the southern coast. It is quite beautiful. English is much more common here than in Spain. We found most places we did not have any difficulty with the language. We stayed in the city of Faro. This is where the airport is that we fly out of tonight. Thursday was a nice relaxing day. We spent the afternoon at the beach which is about 6km away, easily accessible by bus. The beach was great, however, I [View Full Entry]

By comeniusgroup
April 2nd 2008

Wednsday

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On Wednesday there was the workshop of the teacher Eccli. Everyone had their own Portuguese partner and they had to taste Italian typical foods. At the same time we were taking photos or note down the expression on their face. After the workshop there was a conversation; looking for a new identity with the architect Lago Monte Pedago. From 12:00 to 13:00 we had to return to school , but before we ate in a restaurant, after which we took the train and we went to Tavira. We stayed there form 14.27 until 17.11. We saw the cultural archeology of Tavira. [View Full Entry]

By comeniusgroup
March 28th 2008

Leaving for Portugal

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Meeting at 11, in Zuffo area, all happy to say good-bye to parents from the coach window... At last we started for this adventure, far away from Italy for 13 days!!! On the road for Milan-Malpensa, we laughed and joked, we listened to music and we had fun. When we arrived at the airport, for someone the anxiety started to grow; we waited still a bit of time before doing the check-in and later walked in the airport-shopping centre or to see the airstrip. Finally we got aboard the plane and in the take-off, someone held the arm of the fellow [View Full Entry]

By vaagen
October 10th 2007

Portugal

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I think I just had the best day of hitchhiking so far. Woke up around 7:30 and didn’t get out to the HH spot until 10:40. First of all I had to pack, second of all I had to walk all the way to the bus stop, take the bus and then walk from the bus stop in Albolote to the service area outside Granada. Although having to wait 35 minutes (normal being 10), it went pretty well. I actually could’ve gotten a ride earlier, but two of the drivers stopping were going to Malaga, which is southwest of Granada and [View Full Entry]

By Sudie
April 15th 2007

Tales of a Portuguese Serenade

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On the bus from Seville to Faro, Jenny turned to me and said, "Sudie - why are we going to Faro?" "I don't know," I said. "Emily read a travelblog about it." Thus we ended up in Faro. Quite frankly, I'm still not sure why we made such a stop. The town was nice, yes . . . and it had a beach . . . about 20 minutes by bus from our hostel. But really there was nothing special about Faro. I guess I need to track down this travelblog Emily read and see what sounded so tempting. There [View Full Entry]

By EmilyZ
April 14th 2007

How Can the Beach Be That Far Away?

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No beach here, but it sure was a pretty sunset.

4/14/07 Seville-->Faro We caught a bus to Faro that left at about 3:00pm (that way we could have a little more time in Seville). We ended up sitting next to this group of Australian guys. Pete (the one that I sat next to) had been to Morocco about the same time that Sudie and I were there so we talked about that, and he showed me videos of last nights bull fight (they killed 6 of them—I’m really glad I didn’t go). When we got to Faro, we all said goodbye (they were going on to Lagos) and then we set [View Full Entry]

By Spain07
March 14th 2007

Faro, Portugal

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The Atlantic

Well, I surprised Camille with a trip to Faro, Portugal, with the intentions of sitting on a different beach for a couple days. I normally sit on the beach in Alicante, so a change of pace and the opportunity to reunite with my ocean of the last 22 years, the Atlantic was irresistible. She was a bit cold, but I didn’t mind. I just hope she doesn’t find out that I’ve been cheating on her with the Mediterranean for the last three months. Anyway we to Madrid the night before on the 14th of March, almost a four hour train [View Full Entry]

By where to
November 18th 2006

Fun at the beach in November

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Sunset

I got up early to catch the morning train to Lagos, near the southwestern tip of Portugal. I took the metro to the stop closest to the station, which turned out to be a few blocks away. I made it to the station just as the train was arriving, so I didn't have time to make a reservation. The train wasn't too full though, so I didn't have trouble finding a free seat, but reservations are compulsory in Portugal so I wasn't sure what would happen. When the conductor arrived, he looked at the rail pass and then asked for the [View Full Entry]

By lisamartin
October 30th 2006

Portuguese mosquitos suck!

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Lagos
Lagos Harbour

This is day 4 of my little sejour in Portugal so here´s the story so far... Left home at 3am on Thursday morning (after having had a lovely dinner for my Grandad at a pub in Meopham the night before). Drove to Luton airport - had plenty of time and only a momentary panic that I wouldmn´t make it when the M25 got closed ahead of me because of an accident and I was stuck still for 40 minutes. All ok though and got to Luton Airparks well on time. Shuttle bus took me to the airport where I checked in [View Full Entry]

By Karla_Ian
June 29th 2006

PORTO to ALBUFEIRA

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hi everyoneeeee!!!!!! sorry we haven't been writing alot. the past few days were pretty hectic but here we are in .. .. southern portugal! so PORTO was just amazing. We spent the day visiting wine cellers and doing port tastings. (mann we're doing alot of "tastings" here eh .. lol) it was really fun! we took many pictures that we'll load up asap. The port in the city of Porto was gorgeous ... with the water and the boats.. just beautiful. Porto is in northern portugal and we took the train from there to ALBUFEIRA ... in the south of portugal! [View Full Entry]

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