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April 10th 2016
It’s the Second Sunday in April, April 10, 2016 and the sun has just burst out after the heaviest rain shower of the trip. The Internet Weather says COASTAL EVENT meaning we have high winds and intermittent sun and rain. We are still in Porto, Portugal until tomorrow. Larry and I like this town a lot. It’s smaller than Lisbon, about half a million. It has old world charm on every street. B ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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