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Entries from June 2008

Get Ready To Travel : Surfing The Web For a Bed

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

When I have to plan my vacations, I surf the web. hotel and flight booking, travel guides, photos, previous visitors opinions and reviews, all of this add up together to create my traveling notes that we’ll help me while I’m there. If you are reading this, you do the same. From my experience more than [...]

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Tags: Camping · Hostels · Hotels · Sleeping

Going to Sintra

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

If you don’t know this already, learn it know and never forget it : visiting Lisbon and not spending a whole day in Sintra is missing one of the most beautiful places in world. And this is not my solo opinion : everyone who’s been there will tell you the same. In the future I [...]

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Tags: Going Outside · Lisboa Card · Moving Around · Sintra

Travelling to Algarve

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Portugal is still a country well know because of the Algarve sunny beaches. Lisbon is growing up as a desired destination, but for many years tourists would fly from abroad directly to Algarve, without paying too much attention to the city. And truth be said, the city didn’t care a lot about them also. But [...]

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Tags: Coming And Going · Utilities

Hard Rock Cafe Lisboa

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s not the most original place in the world, since you can find one in every major city in Europe, but even so I decided to post about it. I wanted to this for a couple of reasons, one of them being that I like the place. When I visit the place I always get [...]

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Tags: Nightlife

City Of The Seven Hills

June 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Portuguese know Lisbon as the “cidade das sete colinas” (city of the seven hills), since legend says that the city was originally built over seven hills. This is still one of the city catch-lines, as you can easily check by the bus tickets being named nowadays as 7 Colinas (7 Hills). This nickname is not [...]

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Tags: Did You Know?