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Portugal - The Edge of the World

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May 10th 2007
Late on a monday I caught the bus from Spain to Portugal's capital Lisbon. Whilst traveling I had been told about a website called couchsurfing.com. It's a community of travellers where people offer their couch to fellow travellers to sleep on. It's a great way to save money and to meet locals. I had my first couchsurfing experience in Lisbon. My first impression of the Portuguese people was a g ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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