Tag: Lisbon2022
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All the Peoples of the World (Lisbon 3)
Views from atop the Monument to the Discoverers, or Padrão dos Descobrimentos, built in around 1960 at the height of the Salazar dictatorship. This is on the river edge overlooking the Tagus, near the Belem Tower and self evidently across the road from the Jerónimos Monastery. I loved how the people on the encompassed mappa…
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Travelling Light (Lisbon 1)
It’s been a while. Two years of Covid-19 has caused not only lockdown but a fairly ingrained aversion to crowds. More perhaps than for most, with Janet’s kidney transplant placing her pretty much at the top of the “extremely medically vulnerable” list. So, after vaccine number four and her consultant telling her she was currently…
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