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Off to Spain

So here we are in Cádiz, Spain. It is the capital of the Province of Cádiz in autonomous Andalusia. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of Western Europe, but it is quite small. It has only about 115,000 resident citizens.  It is often described as a typical Andalusian city brimming with historical […]

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A Second Day in Lisbon

For the second day we decided to tour Lisbon proper. What is truly amazing is that Lisbon is spotlessly clean. Which is what we saw pretty much everywhere in Europe—so maybe it shouldn’t be amazing at all.  One place we visited was a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome that was secularized in […]

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