Ornate big lantern

Fashionistas dancing in the streets

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June 5th 2011
Today was Will's choice of activity. We headed out to the MUDO - the Lisbon museum of design and fashion. As we neared the waterfront location we coudln't resist the urge to go right down to the mouth of the Tagus River for which one assumes the location of Lisbon was chosen. Marika and Will ran around the Praca do Dom Jose I while Kim took in an outside gallery of huge photos of Gaza ... 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