LIsboa 10/04/09

3. First 48 hour flight, then 2 hours of getting lost, the dad and Liz find out their homeless

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April 11th 2009
Ok I thought maybe I just cant read the map of downtown Lisbon properly. When we got to Rato it wasn’t so much my lack of reading skills as it was poor lack of directions as I soon found out when we went to a nearby corner store and found out we were totally outside the city centre. Dad was all for taking a taxi at this point. I said not to worry I'm sure this is the final point of our struggl ... read more

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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