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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 Very Berry ME
May 20th 2006

Faro...Portugal!!!

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Em Portugal....in Portugal
Eu comendo uma boa comida portuguesa...feita por minha amiga SILVIA....que nao eh portuguesa, mas quase.... (Eating a very good portuguese food, made by my friend Silvia, she is not Portuguese, but a... [more]

Mais umas fotinhas de Faro-Portugal!!! More photos from Faro-Portugal!! Enjoy... [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 16th 2006

Day 5 - Silves and Portimao

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Portimao Hidden Cove of Sardine restaurants

Day 5 Silves via Portimao G: Today we finally got out of bed a little tired and ready for our trip to see Silves and explore more of Portimao. First we walked around the old section of Portimao and let me tell you, it is in rough shape. Not in a Ghetto sort of way but in old, ruins, and damaged sort of way. It is weird to see a very nice house, fixed up and stuck to an abandon house with no roof and chains across the doors. Found out later the reason some of the owners do not fix [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 15th 2006

Day 4 Portimao and Alvor at Night

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Morning Coffee

G: Today was another georgeous day in Portugal. Man you can not ask for better weather then what we are having, sunny, clear days temperature around 30 degrees and there is a nice cooling wind blowing to keep you fresh…. How is everyone’s weather back home? Anyway, today we took the public transit system to head into Portimao to check the shopping and town. We arrived around 1130ish and took a look around all the car dealerships. They have many different types of vehicles that are neat to look at. Cannot wait till I rent one in a couple of days. [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 14th 2006

Day 2, Praia do Vau (Beach) and Praia da Rocha

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Henna Tatoos

J: Well folks Day 2 proved to me yet again that there is absolutely no reason for me to use Tan Accelerator. Being the ever-so-anxious-for-results person that I am, I just had to get a fast tan and use the accelerator on both me and white-as-a-mozzarella-cheese Guy. Not such a good idea on your first day of tanning. You would think that I would have learned my lesson in Florida, when Nat and I turned the front side of good friend Mark into a Lobster, putting him out of commission for a couple of days…. Oh well… Guy will learn eventually [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 14th 2006

Day 3, Arrival of the Brat Pack

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Apartment view

J: This morning Guy and I woke up leisurely and waited for the other folks to arrive… and waited…and waited and … finally around noonish we got a call that they had finally landed and would shortly be at the apartments. So we packed our bags and checked out. But before leaving I took advantage of the internet café offered at the hotel to check the comments to our blog site. Up to this point, we haven’t been able to access these comments as the free wireless network service provider we were using would bar access to the comment’s site. Sidebar: [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 12th 2006

Traveling to Portugal

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First Class Toast

G: Well nothing to really report, got to love flying business class. The big seats, great food, unlimited service with a smile…….wonder what the transit air line will be for the others? We did have a typical Judith moment on the way to the Ottawa airport, yes we were late leaving, how did you all guess? But for once it was not Judith’s fault, shocking I know but Tuhin was 20 minutes late. Not a big deal because we still made it in time for the Ottawa 2-1 victory to stay alive another day. Now we are waiting for our last [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 11th 2006

Countdown to Portugal Begins...

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10 hrs and we're off to Portugal with a stop in London and Lisbon! Yipeee... I think all the people who are staying behind are more excited about this trip than we are - NOT! I've been bouncing off the walls for the last three days. Poor Guy - sleep time has been minimal these last few days! (Greg - get your mind out of the gutter!) Hopefully, we'll manage to keep the blog as lively and entertaining as it was in Japan. I tried to add as many people as I could remember wanted a link to the site - [View Full Entry]

By Guy and Jude Explorations
May 9th 2006

Getting ready for the Algarve

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Well folks - 2 more sleeps and we'll be boarding a plane, final destination: the Algarve! We're looking forward to this trip... should be a little more relaxing than the last one and hopefully a little less embarrassing! Take care - and hope you're able to get on to this site with more ease than last time. J [View Full Entry]

By Very Berry ME
April 30th 2006

Estou em Portugal

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Vitor e eu (Vitor and I)
Este eh o marido da Silvia!!! Um portugues nato! Estavamos na Marina! (this one is my friend's husband! He is Portuguese! We were at Marine!

Primeiro gostaria de agradecer a todos que me deixaram os comentarios....amo le-los!!! Me deixa muito feliz em saber que estao me acompanhando um pouquinho... Bem cheguei em Portugal ha quase 1 semana....estou amando!!! Estou em ALGARVE, propriamente em FARO!!! Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeente...eh lindo!!!! Umas praias maravilhosas...nessa epoca do ano, nem achava que estaria tao agradavel o clima....sai da Belgica e estava um friozinho tao chato ainda, mas cheguei aqui o maximo que consegui usar foi uma jaqueta jeans!!! Bem, o povo portugues eh bem caloroso, as vezes um tanto avessos aos [View Full Entry]

By Very Berry ME
April 26th 2006

Soh agora....

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Meus queridos....infelizmente soh agora estou conseguindo escrever aqui....acho que vou desistir disso....hahaha....pois nao consigo acessar a internet com a frequencia que gostaria! Bem, desde que cheguei estive na Belgica...que eh onde estou instalada com minhas bagagens.... A Belgica eh linda, mas suja e muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuitos marroquinhos...ai gente se eu contar o que aconteceu comigo nem vao acreditar....roubaram minha camera fotografica!!! Afffffff....acreditem, fiquei pasma, mas foram os marroquinos, tinha um monte deles!!! Bem, eu imaginava a Belgica de outro jeito, mas....me s [View Full Entry]

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