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Weymouth to Portugal

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November 28th 2012
Weymouth to Portugal. We spent a weeek in perfect weather really enjoying the olympics, but really that is when we should have gone! The conditions were perfect but there again sometimes that is the way it goes. We had a great day with Bruce on his birthday and really thought the olympic saliing event inWeymouth was wonderful. We could watch gold medals being won right in front of us, for ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Olhão

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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