Graca Square

Arrived in Lisbon

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January 4th 2008
Leaving Seattle on the red eye Wednesday night, I came into Philadelphia at sunrise on Thursday; a two-hour layover, then landed on the frozen runway in Toronto, long nap in Don´s room at the airport hotel, left Toronto during a glorious sunset, arrived at the Lisbon airport pre-dawn in a driving rainstorm, a taxi ride to the hotel on Rossio Square during another dawn that came as the rain moved ... read more

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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