Parque das Nacoes (Park of Nations)

Roof of the train station for the area which was the site of the 1998 Expo and now the oceanarium, marina etc. Lisbon is very spread out, so we took the tourist buses for the first time and had great views

Recession? What Recession??

May 15th 2012
We got talking with two Austrian girls in a restaurant in Lisbon (we were the only diners and yes, people think they are Australian and ask them if they have kangaroos in their garden). They made an interesting comment about their country’s approach to the recession – that Austrians more-or-less expect bad things to happen and had accepted life would be grim for a while. (They also said pe ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more

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