Sintrax

...and a walk along the Oriente promenade

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April 18th 2009
We decide to walk up the mountain to a palace at the top. Anyway we get about half way and are informed it’s still about another half an hour to the top of the mountain. To make it worse none of the buses decide to stop for us whilst I try to flag them down - I know it doesn’t work in most western countries but dammit I had high hopes. Disgruntled we are about to turn around and go back when I ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisbon & Tagus Valley » Lisbon

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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