Palácio Nacional de Queluz

Because of all the stops along the coast, we didn't actually make it out to Sintra on Saturday. It wouldn't have been enough time to see everything. So we decided to head back to Sofia's place and go back to Sintra tomorrow.

Lisbon '07

September 28th 2007
It had been 7 years since I traveled abroad. That was when I met up with my long time friend and traveling companion Max, in the unknown territory that was Eastern Europe. A decade earlier, communism had crumbled with the fall of the Berlin wall, and many former Eastern bloc countries declared their independence soon after. Czechoslovakia would become the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Many, includi ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

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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