Vagia's Hut

Call Me Ishmael

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March 4th 2014
Call me Ishmael. How I came to be on this archipelago is no concern of yours. And how I came to meet my strange travelling companion (let’s call him Queequeg) is also no concern of yours. Suffice it to say, we are bedfellows, and we are friends. But never a stranger bedfellow should you wish to meet. More of that later. And so it came to pass that we came to find ourselves in this s ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Azores » Pico

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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