Hieronymites Monastery Behind Fountain

Hostel Chaos and a hike through San Francisco?

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September 17th 2010
For our first big weekend trip, we decided to go to Portugal. This included an original group of 8 (already quite a large group) and I took on the role of logistics planner. We knew we wanted to go to Lisbon, but I had also heard from my high school Spanish teacher, Mr. Armstrong, that Algarve in the south of Spain was also very nice. So, I put together a trip that had us flying into Lisbon where ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

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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