Day 18, 2100 004

Portugal Trip

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April 24th 2010
Today we left for Tavira without ever having met the owners of the villa we rented in Albufeira. They were due to meet us on the first day we arrived but never showed up and neither did they bid us farewell, funny way of doing business, luckily we hadn’t given them the deposit they had requested. The taxi was right on time but the driver nearly got a hernia trying to lift Jocelyne’s sui ... 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