Flooded out on the Algarve

Portugal and North again

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March 18th 2010
Leaving Spain a few days into the New Year, we drove across the Guadiana Bridge and back into Portugal for the third time since our travels began. Unfortunately the previous hot weather was replaced this time with strong winds, low temperatures and torrential rain causing lots of flooding. We spent a cold two weeks travelling the Algarve coastline from Castro Marim on the east to Boca de Rio on ... 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