Risk in Lisbon

---

November 6th 2010
Sooo, hello my friends. Yes, again, we are alive, and yes, we know we suck. Again. But whatcha gunna do? If you can cast your minds back to our last blog, written approximately around the time of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, you may remember that I was writing about our teaching adventures while we were in sunny Crete (I was writing from Crete, we didn't teach there). Even t ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

---

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