The local

This was where Augusto North from the north of Portugal loved to practise english and rack up the pool balls for usually Gino and I.

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A Dutch experience in Portugal

November 2nd 2006
Boa Dia, that and about three other words is the great repertoire of my Portuguese language! I have to laugh, for the last month all that has been jibber jabbering around me has been the "throat clearing" dialect of Dutch mixed with a little Antwerp version (although both Dutch apparantly they are different a bit like comparing an American from Alabama to a Brit from Brixton). Where is this plac ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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

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