Day 19, 2100 018

Portugal Trip

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April 24th 2010
After breakfast we walked to the Grand mall where we all caught up on our e-mail ­ and it’s just our luck that they have free Wi-Fi - and did a little shopping. The afternoon was spent sight seeing around the town. Appropriately, Tavira is known as the Little Venice of Portugal and rightly so, it’s very beautiful. There are a multiple of bridges that span the Rio Gilao river which runs throug ... 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