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Portugal Trip

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April 9th 2010
Bom dia a Portugal e uma boa Pasqua (good day from Portugal and happy Easter. Today is a hot, glorious, sit around the pool and drink wine and port kind of day. It’s very warm here today, about 23 degrees and, because pretty well everything is closed for Easter Sunday, this is exactly what we’re doing (except for Molly Maid, Renita, who insists on washing the floors). After breakfast, the g ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Albufeira

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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