Red rooftops in Porto

Our first visitor

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October 25th 2006
Lindsay’s brother, Tim, came to visit us last week. It was fun to have a guest and see a familiar face. We showed him around Coimbra and in exchange he brought us brand new bottles of contact solution (it costs over $20 a bottle here!) and The Office Season 2 DVD to watch. I thought it was a pretty good trade, myself. On the weekend we went to Porto and climbed the tallest tower in Portuga ... read more

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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