View from our Room in Lisbon

Your Mother Smells of Elderberries

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July 5th 2015
Geo: 39.3621, -9.15714At breakfast this morning, all of the adults were still talking of our culinary experience from the night before. The two girls still do not know what they missed. Nonetheless, we agreed that a bar had been set for dining on this trip.We divvied up duties, with me heading off to pick up our rental van, Barbara and K heading to a market to buy lunch and van goodies, and ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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