Luz beach and town

Into the hills

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May 14th 2007
A fairly relaxed day The morning was spent wandering around the small town and beach of Luz. It seemed a normal small holiday resort with plenty of British tourists and was difficult to believe that it has been the centre of so much recent media interest. After updating the weblog in an internet café, we drove a short way along the coast to Portimão and then inland to Serra de Monchique a ... 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