"Lifeguard" at Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, Porto

Another Stop in Porto

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August 27th 2017
Sorry for belated updates! I’m back in the US, moved to a new city (Baltimore), and about to start a grad school program. In the interim, let me fill you in on my travels from June onward . . . About 21 months earlier, I’d flown into Porto to begin my Spain program. I hadn’t been outside continental Europe since that day. I thought it was fitting to leave the continent (temporarily, to g ... 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