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ten toes in lisbon now Porto

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February 8th 2015
Hi Sunday evening 7.30PM and back at pilot design hostel. Now on first floor and top bunk. So not 50 plus steps to the bedroom. Cornflakes and milk plus a roll and jam for breakfast with a coffee. Mass at the cathedral at 11am. Nice singing by one and all. Then down to the river and walked around to the beach. Sunny day and lots of people about after lunch. This morning very few about. ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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