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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 Saara
September 26th 2008

Viikko takana

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Olá! Täällä on ihanaa! Sää on lämmin, rannat ihania, ihmiset ystävällisiä, asunto upea, vapaa-aikaa, mahtavia juhlia ja vahvaa espressoa! Mutta löytyy Lissabonista myös kääntöpuoli. Ruuhkia, kerjäläisiä, huoria, kulkukoiria, hikoilua(suomalaisen ongelma, joka ei nähtävästi paikallisia vaivaa lainkaan), asuntolan suihkusta tuleva jääkylmä vesi ja alaovi, jonka avaamiseen menee vähintään 15 minuuttia. Kaikki tämä tuntuu kuitenkin kiehtovalta ja jännittävältä. Reissumme alkoi vakuuttavasti, kun vastaan tulleet tutor-oppilaat veivät meidät väärään asuntolaan. Onneksi kuitenkin oikea paikka [View Full Entry]

By EliBoudreaux
September 22nd 2008

Day 11 - 12 - 13: Lisboa

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Lunch

Day 11 - 12 - 13 - 14: Lisboa After our nice cocktails the night before we got up...again...too late. Nevertheless we got the chance plan Lisboa in the late morning. Lisboa is too elaborate to talk about actually....this is a city that deserves a 10 out of 10! Absolutely! And you should visit it to see it yourself! Beautiful.... Anyway, we met some nice, be it alternative, people from poland and some nice girls/guy from Leuven there. One of them was crazy after one cocktail, the other one started to put ice cubes down my blouse...again after one cocktail..and [View Full Entry]

By shartbeck
September 17th 2008

Lisbon There Done That

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Biking Lisbon

All, Well, we are about 5 hours away from catching an early early morning flight to Rome, and we are coming off a really full day here in Lisbon. We actually were able to sleep in for a change today, even though we had a late hour for sleep the night before, it still felt good to sleep near noon. For the first time on our trip, we actually saw clouds today, so that changed our plans which had been to go to the beach again. We decided to just rent some bikes and explore Lisbon on our own. We started [View Full Entry]

By graphix2go
September 17th 2008

Lisbon

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Love this photo
I wonder who hung out the washing? It is all very neat.

At the end of my stay in Portugal we stayed overnight in Lisbon and spent two days wandering the streets. I was really impressed with Lisbon -- I thought the architecture was amazing and the buildings were all very colorful in pastels and earth tones so I took tons of photos. I found Lisbon to be reasonably priced for a capital city. A lot of the architectecture is very grand -- with many structures being surprisingly big and some of the buildings and monuments have a lot of detail -- sometimes too much but mostly it seems to work. They have [View Full Entry]

By shartbeck
September 16th 2008

Lounging in Lisbon

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Lisbon City Center

All, Well, hello from the western-most reaches of the European continent here in Lisbon, Portugal. The title certainly does not sum up our departure from Madrid and our early hours in Lisbon. Our train ride was about as good I suppose an 10 hour overnight train can be. I slept a nice chunk of it, Chris slept a little less I think. Anyway, had a minor issue when we were getting our 15 day Eurail passes validated on our way out of Madrid, since the train was leaving after 7 PM, it should have been stamped for the next day, but [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
September 10th 2008

The magic of Cintra

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Cintra F

Tim version: * Back in Lisbon, Caitlin and I head to Cintra then relax wit dvds n whatever for the night. * Head off to Madrid the next morning. Slightly longer than long version: Back in Lisbon, back in Oasis, back home. I love this place! Today I wanted to go to Cintra (Sintra) as it has a mythical garden area built up by a man who used to be an Opera prop designer, making for one rich dude with a lot of imagination and so inevitably a very cool elaborate garden. Took me a while to get moving but a [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
September 6th 2008

Back in Lisbon, this place feels like home already

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Castle entrada from garden area
One of the most beautiful spots in the castle, the panoramic view you get from this point shows the area here as seen, and on its left there is a nice open area with grape vines and you get a pretty m... [more]

Tim version: * Back to Lisbon, chilled with Caitlin for ages, awesome girl. * Went to Tomar for the day and night and saw the Knights Templar castle + assorted other stuff. Fuller version: So back to Lisbon from Sagres and due to my slowness getting up n stuff I miss out on going to Tomar today. Not only that but Tomar has been wiped from the train website as a destination, wtf! Small nuclear attack up there perhaps? Or is it really that sleepy and not much goin on that they just decided that meh, noone wants to go there [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
September 3rd 2008

Lisbon Day 3, satisfying my wandering urge

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Check out the painted wall
The photo doesnt capture this the best but this is taken from down by the waterfront, and the combination of the beautiful building that looked like an old style cinema front, combined with the cool w... [more]

Tim version: * Wandered Lisboa for about 5 hours, saw some wicked stuff. I have a serious wandering addiction as others will verify, especially after a few drinks.. * Decided to go to Sagres with Nancy and hung out all night with Caitlin. 3 course meal version: Meant to go to Belem today with Nancy but never saw her rock up so skipped that and went out wandering Lisboa to catch the "real" less touristy side and it worked! I wandered through tiny carless streets, saw people just doing their thing not worrying about touristy people or trying to sell anything, [View Full Entry]

By linzcrowe
September 1st 2008

Portugal Day 1, I love this place already

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Highway in the sky
You can see how closely planes follow certain paths

Tim version * beautiful flight and good approach into Lisbon. * Did walking tour and bars and got to see a good bit of lisbon. Really really long version: So, on to the flight out of Heathrow... I was so glad when the thing finally took off. Not because of all the shit that happened getting out of there but really more because I was sick of the UK and its mangy weather and general social bad attitude and so excited about hitting Portugal! The flight was beautiful... actually beautiful doesn't cover it, but thats the only word Ive got to [View Full Entry]

By Ewa and Jill
August 28th 2008

Portugal: To the end of the world and back

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Lisbon
A view of St. Georges Castle from the windy, cobblestone roads below.

We arrived in Lisbon early afternoon only to be welcomed by sunshine and friendly faces. People here laugh, smile and are very friendly (even when we knew how to order metro tickets, were asked by security personel whether or not we required assitance). Finding the hostel posed a bit of an issue as there were no signs or address numbers on the building. So after walking up and down the street a few times a local took pity on us and helped us out. The hostel was gorgeous; totally renovated with ceramic tiling, hardwood floors, large windows, huge bathrooms - a [View Full Entry]

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