Sunset at the Praca do Comercio

Lisbon, Portugal

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August 6th 2006
We arrived in Lisbon after taking a 7 hour flight from Detroit to London and a 2 hour flight from London to Lisbon. We were expecting to pay extra money for all our luggage, but we got lucky because only Northwest tacked on a fee (and it was pretty small). We didn’t have too much time in Lisbon. Just enough to grab dinner and walk around the downtown area for a few hours. I’ve posted a few ... 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