Always Follow the Guy With the Dead Pig – Sensual Reasons to Checkout Markets
November 16th 2011 We were once again lost in a foreign city. We had been trying for the last hour or so to find Mercado do Bolhão in the center of Porto, Portugal. We seem to spend quite a bit of our travels, Frances and I, lost in the bowels of one city or another. Most of the time this is intentional because it is one of the best ways to get away from the maddening crowd, thereby seeing ‘sites’ that the m
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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 
