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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. To be updated

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By SKMantle
August 4th 2009

Laundry, Laundry and More Laundry. And Cascais, Portugal Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Cascais

Our pile of laundry

So, out of necessity we picked our first hotel in Lisbon on the basis of in-suite laundry. NO ONE PANIC, it was still a nice hotel. After a couple weeks without laundry, it was very welcome. We spent our first night in the hotel doing a load an hour and hanging it from every possible chair, table and balcony thing we could. The next day we grabbed some breakfast and headed for Cascais, a nearby beach town. It was quite nice, although the walking was slow due to some “dodgy tummyness”. I went for a quick swim in the ocean and [View Full Entry]

By Carly and Jez
August 1st 2009

A glimpse of Portugul; Salema and Lisbon Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Lisbon famous tram

Day 471 (26/7/09) Salema, a tiny fishing village, just past Lagos on the southern Portugese coast and thankfully remains untouched by commerical tourism. After bacon and eggs for breaky we walked to the Salema beach, hired a bed and umbrella for the day and relaxed after a hectic week on the go. We called it a day and retreating to camp for a wine before taking up our hosts recommendation for a delicious dinner of prawns and red snapper at a local restaurant. On our walk back to camp a kind couple offered us a lift .. life savers after just [View Full Entry]

By kevdogg
July 21st 2009

Lagos and Seville Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos

Good old Lagos....what a crazy and wonderful place! I arrived in Lagos after an intense over night 13 hour train ride from San Sebastian. I was on a bench on the train with 6 other men for 13 hours! Luckily I was able to crawl under the bench and lay on the floor beneath them for the majority of the trip and was even able to grab a few hours of sleep! After a train transfer in Lisbon and another in Tunes I finally made it to Lagos...thank god! Lagos is such a cool town. Narrow streets packed with little shops [View Full Entry]

By Mandaz
July 16th 2009

Portugal road-trip part 2 Europe » Portugal

TUESDAY 5TH MAY 2009 Had breakfast this morning at the hostel - some kitchen ladies served us rather grumpily - eggs, croissants, yoghurts, juice. When we left the hostel a short time later we actually managed not to get lost getting our of Lagos. We headed straight to Sagres which is still on the cost, but pretty much the most western point of Europe. First stop, without even realising we were there, was the Fortaleza de Sagres - essentially the fort. We got heaps and heaps of photos here as the place was pretty much deserted and the view of the [View Full Entry]

By Mandaz
July 15th 2009

Road trip around Portugal (part 1) Europe » Portugal

This travel blog is a little delayed, but thought best to write it before I start my much longer travels... so here goes. Saturday 2nd May 2009 Spent most of the night throwing up after leaving work early. Having had very little sleep, I managed to oversleep my alarm and basically throw on some clothes as the taxi was tooting out the front. Got to the airport before 5am and there was nothing open (Heathrow T3 I think). Finally the Wetherspoons opened and I grabbed some breakfast while praying that it would stay down, which it did. Also managed to choose [View Full Entry]

By Porto Bristol Associacao
July 12th 2009

Visita Comemorativa do 25º Aniversário do Tratado de Amizade entre as Cidades de Bristol e Porto Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

Gathering in front of the Câmara Municipal do Porto

Visita Comemorativa do 25º Aniversário do Tratado de Amizade celebrado a 11 de Abril de 1984 entre as Cidades de Bristol e Porto, pelos membros da Bristol Oporto Association É com a maior satisfação que vos enviamos algumas das muitas expressões de regozijo, e agradecimento, demonstrados por membros da Oporto Bristol Association após a recente visita ao nosso país, quando das celebrações do 25º aniversário do tratado de Amizade entre as cidades geminadas de Porto e Bristol. Dear Peter and Anabela, Sorry for the delay in writing to you but on behalf of BOA [View Full Entry]

By Pam
July 4th 2009

The Golden Sands of Albufeira Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira

Fiesa Sand Sculpture Festival

Oh, the sun, the golden cliffs, and the golden sand of Albufeira - what a contrast to Ireland. We REALLY enjoyed the sun and the warm weather, but not the cold Atlantic waters. Albufeira is a quaint seaside village where the lifeguards wear bright yellow T-shirts that say, "Matador Salvador" (Lifeguard), where people spend the entire day lazing at the beach, and then party until the wee hours of the morning. Since I've written about Albufeira in the past, I'll concentrate on the very unique sand sculpture festival that we visited on my birthday. These were definitely the largest and mo [View Full Entry]

By RobertoandJim
July 3rd 2009

faro, quarteira Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Quarteira

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today we drove to faro with the intention of going out on rua da oura. we stopped to talk to some police and they said that street was in fuckin lisbon! wtf! they warned us to leave faro as we would get mugged. they said tonight is friday night and tomoro is saturday night and they have to kick ass every weekend.ha he told us to go to vilamoura where we would find irish bars. we decided to do that but ended up on some beach called quarteira. we stayed there and got up and went straight on the beach....danilo and [View Full Entry]

By RobertoandJim
July 2nd 2009

sintra, almada, lisbon Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Sintra

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today we went to sintra. parked illegally as usual outside the town hall. we walked everywhere to find a cash machine and eventually found the biggest one ever!ha....my card was blocked so had to ring up and kick off! had some steak and a good egg. everyone got the same! we had a few games of pool with ronaldo, tried one of his chocolate cigarettes, checked our facebook then headed for almada we crossed the 2nd famous bridge in portugal and saw jesus on the other side. we drove up to him but we were about 45mins too late as it [View Full Entry]

By Isabel og Sveske
July 1st 2009

Portugal er en god oplevelse Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

Kaere venner! Nu er de fleste af jer ogsaa snart ferieramte - tillykke!! Jacob og Joy har vi sagt farvel til efter en hyggelig uge paa havet paa evig jagt efter steder at BAAAADE. I Malaga havde vi verdens hurtigste og temmeligt tilfaeldige crew-skift paa en naesten ulovlig kaj. Lars, Trine og Amanda har rejst med os nogle lidt lange dage paa et lidt haeftigt hav, og fik fast grund under foedderne efter en lille uge. Vi moedtes dog i Aqualand i Albufera og havde en skoen dag i rutchebaner og boelgebassiner!! Vi er nu kommet til Portugal, og i dag [View Full Entry]

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