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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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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Hi Guys! Well I know it's been a while since my last update so i'll try and make this one reasonably informative. In terms of what i've been up to, my job is still going really well and Nina and I are enjoying the fine weather. It's so nice being able to spend our days with friends in the Parks or Zoo rather than being stuck inside indoor playgrounds whilst it's pouring with rain! My flat is going really well and when we are together we generally have a few drinks but most of the time Annette and I are out [View Full Entry]

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Dear friends of Maddy, I decided to publish this after the interest in the McCanns seemed to be freshly in peoples minds. I hope that those of you who are still interested in helping to find madeleine will spread this information...as perhaps it will help to find out who dunnit... Ive had an incredible amount of people reading my articles on the disappearance of Madeleine and it shows me that I must be doing something right. on a personal note; ive had some challenges myself... I've had an interesting last few months to say the least... in fact its been [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone!! Greece was amazing and now I'm in Portugal until Friday! There are 4 of us and we are staying in a resort on the beach. We spend our whole day at the pool and it's so nice to just relax in the sunshine! We didn't know it but this resort caters to Germans so everything is in German and all the workers speak German. It's also almost all old people but some of them are nice! Yesterday I played beach volleyball and that was a lot of fun!!! I hope all is well with you... i will put up [View Full Entry]

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we went to tavira today to hang out on the beaches. there was no one on any of the beaches, they were totally deserted. The common building's in the city were amazingly built like museums or something. like the old buldings in calgary. [View Full Entry]

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Hey Everyone! So this is sort of my fairwell blog to you all. I am in my last week of classes here in Spain and will leaving in two short weeks. I can´t believe how fast everything is going! I´m looking forward however to my month of traveling and visits. It should be a fantastic time and will have to tell you about it when I get back since I don´t have the time to really write in the next month. This past weekend I took my last trip with friends to Lagos Portugal. Our beach weekend was sadly full of [View Full Entry]

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