Guiding Light

HP Sauce And Other Highlights!

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June 10th 2013
Before Christmas we met a couple who had a house near Cape St Vincent in Portugal, we checked it out on the map and it appealed to us as it’s right at the very bottom south west corner of Portugal, a famous old red lighthouse marking the craggy cliffs. We decided that Cabo de Sao Vicente and its neighbouring town: Sagres, would be our next stop. We broke our journey south by stopping for the ni ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Sao Vicente

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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