Central government building

Portugal

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October 6th 2006
To break up my time in Spain I took a side trip to Lisbon, Portugal for 3 days. I caught an overnight train there from Madrid which got me there nice and early in the morning. While waiting to check in, I was talking to a guy at the hostel covered in bites. After a while he noticed that I noticed his bites and said that the bed bugs had bitten the crap out of him. This is the last thing you want t ... 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