From Castle of St. George

Star-Spangled Fourth

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July 4th 2015
Geo: 38.7072, -9.13552Our hotel suite comprised the corner of the top (6th) floor of the hotel, and had a wraparound balcony and least six windows. We shut the automatic rolldown shades on all the windows which, when coupled with the height, meant that there was nothing to wake us in the morning. We also had no clock in the room (in fact, not one of the hotels in which we stayed during this en ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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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