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Porto (Oporto), Portugal

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August 16th 2008
Like mooing livestock we filed through Stansted Airport to our boarding gate for our flight to Porto, Portugal. Millions of people + hundreds of regional airports ='s cheap flights around Europe#. With the likes of Ryan Air you'll experience travel conditions below cattle-class so Michelle had the foresight to buy us priority boarding. This almost got us first in the boarding queue (a determined ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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