Part of eastern Lisbon

Ah, Lisboa

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October 22nd 2007
We arrived in Lisbon yesterday morning (again, no customs, so no stamp on the passport!). We're staying in a hotel here, which is a nice reprieve after the shocking WHE in Barcelona. It's like we're staying in someone's house - a very quaint and charming little hotel (and extremely cheap!) where Samyelena has been kind enough to let me have the double bed. No breakfast (unless we pay for a standar ... 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