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April 12th 2017
12th April Awoke to a beautiful & colourful sunrise. After a leisurely breakfast we jumped on the bikes & off we went to CSV in mid morning heat. Only took 20 minutes. We arrived at the site which is clearly a tourist attraction as there were a couple of coaches, 8 motorhomes & a couple of dozen cars. This place, now fielding a lighthouse, used to be a monastery & is on a pilgrim’s trail; you c ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Sagres

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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