Valada

Faro Santigo bike ride

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September 15th 2022
Lisboa to Chumasca 108.50 km A pilgrimage or a bike ride? Today I had to focus on this question after seeing a lot of people walking with their backpacks along the way just as I did 10 years ago. We "flashed" them by on our fancy electric pedal-assisted bikes. Their effort seems much bigger than ours, although we started much further back and cover much more distance every day. I leave ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley

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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 a... ... read more