Monte Nora

Bloody Nora

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October 16th 2008
Well, I feel as if this year has been one big trip away from home. We have just returned from a weeks stay in Portugal. When the boys were young, we found this fantastic villa in Silves (old Moorish Capital of Portugal). It is owned by a couple that lived in Nailsea and my sister found the advertisement posted on the staff wall at her work place. We had never been to Portugal, so the fir ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve

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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