Portuguese music is traditionally bout death, lost loves, lives lost in battles .

This mournful creature was not playing , ‘ Wake me up before you go go’, by Wham, and the look on his face, and the disgusted look his dog gave me, makes me think he knows I just offloaded a handful of brown coins onto him.

4 September 2019: Woke Up Tired, No Plans, Meet New Friend, Tuk Tuk.

September 4th 2019
We woke up to the sound of the neighbors playing with their children, laughing, and enjoying life. Their apartment is just offset from ours, but a little lower, so you can experience their life, whether you choose to or not. Without much of a plan, I looked up a tourist information place, or so I thought, and we started climbing west. As we turned the first corner, the tiniest cafe, on a corner ... read more

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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

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