Scenes from Santarem
September 10th 2014 We spent a week in the city of Santarem and it is hard to figure out how to capture it all, but we loved it. Hot and in places very polluted, cheerful and hard working, full of celebration and tradition while allowing the historical buildings to crumble; it is a city of contrasts. On one hand everyone has a cell phone, on the other, the hotel directs you not to put toilet paper in the toilet. It i
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