A Wide Variety of Vendors

Offerings at the festival were varied running from dried fruits, leather goods, pipes, belly dancing outfits. These costumed ones sold wonderful waffles with fresh fruit which we tried.

Our Final Days in the Algarve of Portugal April 26 - May 2, 2013

May 10th 2013
It is always hard to get the blog updated with what we have done just before leaving a port. As a result will go back in time to just before we left Lagos to fill in the gap. Lagos had a Festival of Discovery that was held between April 26th and May 5th. This is to mark the period during the 16th century when the royalty entered and elevated Lagos to a city as well ... read more

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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

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