Algarve Skate Park

Portugal, chaving it up..

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April 27th 2011
Well I didn't know what 'Chavs' were until I became one.. Portugal can be summed up by sun, rosada vino, Super Bock and eventually some sweet site seeing. It was a bit of a ghost town where we were in Algarves. Lots of over development and heinous crimes against architecture - Sexy pastel 90s apartment complexes reminiscent of an ep from the original Beverley Hills 90210.. Silves was a ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve

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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