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Where's that "#$%^&*" castle
... metro pass to the test again, our transportation downhill was an air conditioned Mercedes bus. The bus driver definitely gets his daily kick with passengers screaming as he takes the downhill hairpins at F1 speed.
With blistered feet (I had to take my sock off early in the ...
The Stone Roses!
... me that say's I'm getting to old for this, but nonetheless here I am with good company, lots of beer, and about to see one of my favourite bands of all time; The Stone Roses. Life doesn't get much better than this. An additional bonus, after setting up the tent early in shady camp grounds, we've got plenty of time to watch the new Spiderman movie at a local cinema. A day of sheer pleasure, even though the webslinger left ...
Remnants of a Regime: PDA and Sexism in Portugal
... I spent in Portugal the more I recognized it was a pattern and the more I wondered why this behavior would be the norm.
Portugal was subject to a dictatorship under Antonio Salazar, who was a proponent of the Catholic Church's presence in Portugal. Besides strict censorship laws, the regime outlawed other practices the church found unacceptable - one of these being public displays of affection. It wasn't until the Carnation Revolution overturned ...
Loving Lisbon
... they were anatomically correct. I was so shocked and amused that my decision was instant and I was at the cash register before I knew it. Once in Faro, we said our final farewells to the trinket, grateful that the clutch was still in tact. As we made our way through the train platform I was startled by sudden loud pounding from the metal structure to my left. I took a couple of steps back and surveyed the scene, deducing through my still ...
Lisboa
... the view. After that was the Torre (tower) of Belem, another defense-y type structure. Again very big and very cool, it felt like it would never stop going up, and all these buildings have these tiny circular staircases that make it impossible to see if someone is coming and also make me slightly dizzy. I couldn't imagine building one of those, like what do you do if you miscalculate a step and then the circle is ruined? I digress, at this point all that ...
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