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ten toes in lisbon now Porto

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February 2nd 2015
Hi. Monday. 2 February 8PM and in the t v room as not sure if the internet is working in the bedroom.... sometime it does but not always.... so having a coffee before I head upstairs. Drizzly day with temperature hovering around 11 degrees. All day. Up late, checked emails and news about the super bowl so keeping up with the news. To the cathedral then down the 200 plus steps to the river and ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern

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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