Saying good bye to some locals!

MADEIRA -- Beautiful island...Jos birth place!

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November 7th 2006
Everytime we land here it brings a smile to our faces... A lot has changed since we were last here, thou the faces are still the same; specially those of my grandmothers smile..then you know you are home! Done all the touristic things, beautiful city FUNCHAL. Visited 'Copacabana´ for The Nobregas big night out, another one not to be forgotten....... Uncles and aunties were glad to have us over ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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