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Lovely Lisbon & Beyond

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August 12th 2014
Greetings again as this time I'm writing from the Algarve Coast! This will be another short entry with a longer more thought out posting soon to follow. I arrived in Lisbon after leaving Morocco & stayed one night in a lovely B&B in the center of town. I basically slept the whole time as I was still fighting a bug (and it appears I still continue to be). Then I headed over to the hotel where I met ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Lisboa

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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