A solemn moment

North to Porto

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October 15th 2010
The surf is flat, and we're driving almost the entire length of Portugal today to stay with friends in Porto and explore some of the North. We want to take the fastest route, so we enter our destination into the GPS Jose has lent us. After the car, this has got to be our most valuable asset on this trip. Once we manage to switch it to English instead of Portuguese there is no looking back. The ... 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