Camino de Santiago de Compostela - (Day 1-2) Portuguese Trail (Elvas to Ponte de Lima)
August 1st 2004 Camino de Santiago de Compostela - Portuguese Trail with Badajoz walking group. Total of 151km
On my first trip away from home I decided to head for Spain, being my birth country and understanding the language. It gave me the opportunity to go on the Camino Portuges to Santiago de Compostela with the a Spanish walking club. This trip gave me the sensation that I must come and walk it again. A
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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 
