Quinta da Regaleira: another tower view

Finally! I found USB connectivity in Portugal!

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May 3rd 2008
Picture "catch-up" in Coimbra Sorry for the terrible picture quality! All through my trip, I looked in vain for an Internet cafe that had USB upload capability (to grab pictures from my camera), on which the whole travel blog idea hinged (for me at least--naturally, I could have just entered unadorned text). I pretty much stopped taking any pictures at all. This accounts for the ve ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central » Coimbra

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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