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Disfrutando mucho Portuga!, Lisboa, Portugal travel blog

Disfrutando mucho Portuga!

A travel blog entry by somanyroads

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I could easily see myself being able to live in Portugal. With over 700 kilometers of coast, an almost island-like isolation from the rest of Western Europe (yet with obvious geographic proximity), and a people who are still sincerely hospitable to ...

van dieptes naar hoogtes, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

van dieptes naar hoogtes

A travel blog entry by la_maria

dieptes en hoogtes --> het elastisch systeem IS het mensen missen,... of is het gemis,.. of is het eenzaamheid,... of is het gemis aan (h)erkenning,...Nee het is ( sorry) alvast niet het missen van mensen,... het is mijn ego dat me wederom parten ...

Sao Jorge photo, Sao Jorge and its fajas, Portugal travel blog

Sao Jorge photo

A travel blog entry by catmoj

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Sao Jorge island is the longest island in the Azores. It looks like the spine of a half-submerged whale, albeit covered in thick foliage and trimmings of basaltic lava. 58 km long and a mere 5km wide, it's my most favourite island. It's different to ...

Lisbon and vicinity, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon and vicinity

A travel blog entry by irenan

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... there are many other wonderful places in Lisbon...just walking around the city is a pleasure...but there is more to Portugal than just Lisbon...one day hopefully we will return to explore the whole country...maybe we'll stay in pousadas around the ...

Gay and Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Gay and Lisbon

A travel blog entry by andrewjerome

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... close our eyes for a nanna nap, we had already arrived in Europe’s westernmost and sunniest capital (according to the Go Lisbon website anyway). Portugal is quite an eye-opener, and can’t really be compared to anywhere else we’ve been in ...

Loving Lisbon!, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Loving Lisbon!

A travel blog entry by evafordham

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We took another long, but very, very comfy bus ride, and the buses in Portugal are great! They have a hostess, they sell snacks, and we got to watch a movie in ENGLISH, with Portuguese subtitles. It was "Must Love Dogs", and I don't really recommend ...

Leaving London, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Leaving London

A travel blog entry by mnm

... and waving his arms around. Oh joy! Food scrumptious... no movie, just us and our wild sense of humour! Arrival at Lisbon transit bit....3rd world sprung to mind! Any illusions of shopping in our last civilised country were shattered, when we were ...

back to the capital, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

back to the capital

A travel blog entry by salkelely

i really really love lisbon...... its so relaxed and alternative here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not much to report about libon... wandered around the winding, cobblestones streets admiring the graffiti, went out a few times, at night the streets of barrio alto ...

Lisbon once again, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon once again

A travel blog entry by jimstephkrueger

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... We were very happy to have this port included on the itinerary - a chance for us to revisit some of our favorite places in Lisbon - even if only for a short day. We had a taxi driver take us to Rossio Square - our starting point.  We walked ...

Finally!!, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Finally!!

A travel blog entry by steph_444

It's about time! Finally got to Lisbon today. I think I may have actually left the hostel in Oeiras before 9am too. Got the train to Cais do Sodre in Lisbon, then the metro to Baixa Chiado then switched once and then twice to the yellow line, and ended up ...

Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon, Portugal

A travel blog entry by jimstephkrueger

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... nice fountain located here.  We then came upon the Praca dos Restauradores where the centerpiece is an obelisk celebrating Portugal's independence from Spain in 1640.  Also located here is the oldest hotel in Lisbon - the Hotel Avenida ...

Two Days and Two Nights in Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Two Days and Two Nights in Lisboa

A travel blog entry by danielpeach

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... because we saved a lot of money on pricey food and drinks and had a wonderful time meeting fellow travelers from the US, Brazil, Portugal, and France. The next morning we took a train to Sindra, a small town outside of the city that the people at the ...

The Age of Aquarium, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

The Age of Aquarium

A travel blog entry by peillsonwheels

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... the tour.  We saw lots more of the city on this part of the tour, including the incredible Aguas Livres, Lisbon's amazingly enormous aquaduct, built in the early 1700's.  After the tour, we spent some quality time on the main shopping ...

Hola!, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Hola!

A travel blog entry by mande

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... around a very beautiful and effiecient city. After another overnight train, in Spain's "tren hotel" we arrived on a rainy morning in Lisbon - a slight detour from our original plans, but we were so close, so why not go?! It was fascinating to visit and ...

Mais uma coisa perdida, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Mais uma coisa perdida

A travel blog entry by rseldin

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... que chamar um cara para arrombar o cadeado, o que não tinha problema pois trouxe 4. Só que na hora de trancar novamente não achei nenhum dos outros 3... Acho que os gnomos da minha irmã me seguiram até Portugal. Mais tarde escrevo mais! - ...

On to Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

On to Lisbon

A travel blog entry by tammyjoe

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... watching the sun go down sitting next to the water, on the beach. On the way back we got a custard tart, which apparently Portugal is famous for, it was delicious. We were obviously are starting to look like travellers or a bit rough as we were offered ...

Versão 6 dos planos para a viagem, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Versão 6 dos planos para a viagem

A travel blog entry by byker

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Aqui fica a versão 6 do planeamento da viagem LongWay to Nordkapp.   Ainda não é a versão final mas está muito muito perto do que será a nossa VIAGEM que começa já no dia 10 de Junho 2010.   Resumo da Viagem:  Os marcos: Saída ...

Made it to Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Made it to Portugal

A travel blog entry by joshuaryan

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Bon dia...After almost 24 hours on 2 flights going over 600 mph at 36,000ft and covering ~7500miles we made it to Lisboa, Portugal.  We were so exhausted from traveling, we got stright into our room, got some rest, then had dinner at Hard Rock ...

Part 7 - Belém (day trip), Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Part 7 - Belém (day trip)

A travel blog entry by mkanamori

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... the pasteis at the hotel). And to the west of Belém are the mundane seaside resorts of Cascaís and Estoril... This concludes my Lisbon entries. There are of course other topics, such as the wonderful music (fado of Lisbon and of Coimbra), but I don't ...

Day 9: Lisbon!, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Day 9: Lisbon!

A travel blog entry by randiandersen

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Bom Dia! (HI) I'm in Portugal! Well the ship is docked in Portugal but I'm still on it. I'm leaving in a few minutes to meet a friend and go find some internet. By the time I post this I will have found an internet café - Hurray!!! There's been a lot of ...

Lisbon., Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon.

A travel blog entry by lnlineurope

TBC ...

Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon

A travel blog entry by texas_ashley

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March 1- March ...

Abrigado, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Abrigado

A travel blog entry by scooterandlaura

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... the stop closest to our hostel.  Gotta love those free offerings!  In the evening we boarded an overnight train to Lisbon, Portugal.  As we waited at the train station, Scooter and I were both dreading the train ride since we ...

Couple of days back in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Couple of days back in Lisbon

A travel blog entry by tammyjoe

On saturday, we took the train back to Lisbon where we checked into a hostel. The hostel was a bit mixed the rooms and kitchen were nice, but the bathrooms were a bit grotty! That night we just chilled out and ate. On sunday we went back into central ...

Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Lisbon

A travel blog entry by indiajan

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... of Rnr after a full on two weeks in Spain. It was great to catch up with some old friends. And even to stay with one of them... The Portuguese are so friendly... I even got a personal tour of Lisbon and invited to go clubbing with a Brazilian rock ...

Portugal, it's a love hate thing..., Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Portugal, it's a love hate thing...

A travel blog entry by dukesabroad

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... 't accessible by local transportation so we were kinda stuck on that one. Our streak of unluckiness continued in Portugal as well. Our initial plan saw us leaving Lisbon on the 22rd by night train, and getting into Madrid, spending the night, and taking ...

made to move: autostop naar PORTO, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

made to move: autostop naar PORTO

A travel blog entry by la_maria

UPDATE 2 MADE TO MOVE  autostop van lissabon naar porto geschatte duurtijd: 4u uiteindelijke duurtijd: 9,5u Warme mensen,... tot ze in de auto zitten, achtervolgt door angst die gevoed is door de mass media,... want daar stonden we ( helena en ...

Living on volcanoes, Sao Miguel Island, Portugal travel blog

Living on volcanoes

A travel blog entry by catmoj

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Volcanic activity in Furnas, the suffocating stench of sulphur. Views of pico, portugual's highest mountain... more to come at a later ...

Part 4 - Lisbon's public transportation, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Part 4 - Lisbon's public transportation

A travel blog entry by mkanamori

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Continuing from part 3, you now realise that Lisbon is a very hilly city. But, one can either suffer the ups and downs by foot (good for keeping fit), or take the "electrico" (tram), which runs quite regularly on most of the routes (except the weekends). ...

Part 6 - Lisbon gastronomy, Lisbon, Portugal travel blog

Part 6 - Lisbon gastronomy

A travel blog entry by mkanamori

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During our stay in Lisbon, we ate out a couple of times: traditional Portuguese cuisine is quite uncomplicated and being blessed with fish from both the Tagus River and the Atlantic, you would think people would eat a lot of seafood. Indeed, the salty, ...

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