Scenic highway view

Traveling to the Azores

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March 15th 2018
The Azores make for a great European destination due to the short 4 hour flight from Boston. However, you first have to get to Boston if you don't already live there. My mom and I chose a 4:30 PM Jet Blue flight out of O'Hare. As our travel date approached, so did a bomb cyclone and I waited nervously to see if the latest round of snow would be out of Boston before we arrived. Luckily for us, the ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Azores » Terceira

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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