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Portugal Trip

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April 4th 2010
Today turned out to be a hurry up and wait kind of day. It poured during the night so we decided to take a chance on the weather for our trip to Alcobaca. Unbeknownst to us, we had a week day bus schedule and the buses run on greatly reduced schedules on the week end. We hustled into Alfeizereo only to find we had to wait an hour for the bus. The bus only travelled to Nazare where we had to wa ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Central » Nazaré

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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