Quinta in Sintra

The country of Ports

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November 20th 2008
We arrived in Lisbon, Portugal late at night, and promptly got lost, as is our usual way. Eventually, a taxi ride took us to the place that we needed to be, and we collapsed into bed. The next day, we hopped on a bus on our way north to a town called Peniche. The only other person on the bus who spoke English was a long haired Kiwi who told me, as I was loading my board, that he had heard from his ... 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