Portugal Baby!

Ovar, Portugal

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February 21st 2009
Ovar, Portugal is a beach town located about an hour and a half away from Vigo. Jamie currently lives there and Sean is buying a place there as well. We arrived in Ovar at 1pm on Saturday the 21st. We all went down to the beach for some pics and lunch. Jamie and Sean made us order a Francesinha which is a Portuguese sandwich originally from Porto, made with bread, wet-cured ham, linguiça, fre ... 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