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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 Crownbl
October 6th 2008

Weekend in Lagos, Portugal

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Joe's Dice Roll

I got back from an amazing weekend in Lagos last night around 10 pm and crashed into my bed head first and passed out immediately. We went with a tour company called Discover Sevilla, who had the whole weekend planned to guarantee plenty of booze, lots of sun, surfing, and VIP parties. We got there around 9pm on Friday which gave us plenty of time to get ready for the night ahead. We started off at Nah Nah Bah for dinner and a few drinks and made our way to Joe's Garage where free drinks and games were waiting for us. [View Full Entry]

By EliBoudreaux
September 22nd 2008

Day 15 - 16 - 17: Lagos - Faro

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Praia de Dona Ana

Day 15 - 16 - 17: Lagos - Faro First of all I would like to apologize. Yesterday evening we head into town just for a drink...you now how it goes....you meet some nice people, this time a little bit older than us, and you start sharing experiences...especially because they live in Alicanta You buy one...they buy you two back....you buy one again....I lost count. I swear to the liquor god, Dionysus and to Bacchus, that I will never, and mark my words, never touch the stuff again! So after five or so too strong cocktails somebody said us that the [View Full Entry]

By graphix2go
September 14th 2008

Day trip to Lagos and Silves

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Lagos

We drove to Lagos from Tavira. There is not much to see along the highway and the main thing to be said is that there isn't much traffic -- I never saw so much as a hint of a traffic jam in this part of the world, despite being here in the middle of the tourist season -- maybe the price of gas is keeping people off the roads. Lagos itself was quite crowded, with good reason, very beautiful location. We went for a walk along the cliff and visited the fort -- obligatory it would seem in every Portuguese town. [View Full Entry]

By Ewa and Jill
August 29th 2008

Portugal: To the end of the world continued.

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Our Hostel in Lagos
Look up...wayyy up where there is a balcony, that was us drinking wine and watching the sunset.

We arrived in Lagos at 6:30 starved and worn out with no place to sleep. We got out of the bus station and went on a mission to find food. A swordfish dinner called our name! After we ate we went to look for a hostel; it was two hours, two police officers, too many strangers, and more windy streets than we can count. We arrived exhausted, only to dicover that the owner of the hostel had been taken to the hospital. Fortunitely a neighbour lady took us in, for 20 euros a night we got one bed, a balcony and [View Full Entry]

By Scofflaw
July 26th 2008

headquarters called

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"that was headquarters . they want me to go to las vegas and make contact with a portugesse photographer named laserta, he has all the details. all i do, is check into my sound proof suite, he'll seek me out." - raoul duke im in lagos portugal, we lost some crew along the way to other obligations so were in search of new blood. so far our search has borne no fruit, but i remain optimistic. the weather is also proving uncoopritive, making for a unpleastant ride from here to lisbon. ill have more details on that when we get there. [View Full Entry]

By ChristopherL
July 23rd 2008

Roaming Portugal

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Porto

It is to hot over here! We have left Portugal now and in Spain and yesterday it was hitting 43deg in Saville where we are now so very hot. Well Portugal was pretty much the same heat but no way as bad so was heaps easier for sightseeing. We covered pretty much North to South in the week we had there starting in Porto up the North end. I seemed to be a very old city with all narrow streets and we got lost plenty of times wandering around this place. All the citys in Portugal seem to be very hilly [View Full Entry]

By Ezeur
July 8th 2008

A Praia do Portugal

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Day 1: Praia do Batata

I'm not sure if that title is real Portugese or not. It's my best guess at the translation of "the Portugese beach." I spent my days in Portugal alone or with the Spanish girls who shared my room at the hostel - so I didn't actually learn more than a few words of Portugese. But I didn't go there to learn Portugese. I went there to relax on the beach and that's pretty much all I did. Like Martil, I don't have much to write about in this blog. I spent my days reading, climbing around on the rocks, playing in [View Full Entry]

By jeninspain
June 26th 2008

the sleepless week...and also, PORTUGAL!

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hola again! its been awhile, but life here seems to have increased its pace ALOT! the 3rd week, the one right after malaga and gibraltar was quite busy. it seems that i just decided to take full advantage of my vacation time here and that meant giving up some things...since i couldnt give up class or sight seeing or shopping OR hanging out with friends and going out..it seems sleeping was the first amenity to go! needless to say i got an average of 2.5 hours of sleep a night and did NOT use the siesta time wisely! eek. by the [View Full Entry]

By Damocles
June 18th 2008

Laid low, and almost out, in Lagos

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Cliffs
Enormous and beautiful cliffs lined the main beach in Lagos. There were several small caves you could easily climb through that yielded smaller, more secluded beaches for several kilometers up the coa... [more]

Yeah, so much for staying here for three or four days. We've been here for almost three weeks now, but after some serious beach, serious sun and serious partying, it's time to move on. Jay and I were very close to finding jobs here and staying until the middle of July. Eventually, though, we decided to keep moving, see most of what we came here to see, and come back next May for jobs. Lagos is a small city overrun by Australians and Canadians. Americans, Kiwis and Brits make cameo appearances. The old part of the city, where we spent almost [View Full Entry]

By bridgeterin
May 19th 2008

Dorktown, USA: two redheads in brown North Face jackets touring Lisbon, Portugal together

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Saying goodbye
Notice how Donny included the "Salidas" at the top of the pic? Soo clever.

For Hallie’s last weekend in Europe, we decided to do a five-day trip to Lisbon and Lagos, Portugal. We took the midnight bus from Sevilla after saying goodbye to Donny and Julia for the last time. As we found our seats, a redheaded boy in the back of the bus gave us a knowing nod, acknowledging that we were all Americans. Ben, as he calls himself (Benji, as I took to calling him) approached us immediately upon descending the bus in Lisbon at 6 am Portugal time. We decided that we would make the journey from the bus station into the [View Full Entry]

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