I made a Backpacking trip in 2018: Lisbon – Azores – Porto – Barcelona – Rome

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Rome

Rome is the last stop on the 170-day journey and its perfect end. You could write a good few thing about the city, like two subway lines, lots of tourists, and not so clean, but everything is so authentic, true, and romantic that it overwrites everything.

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Barcelona

I can’t sing ode from Barcelona because for some reason the city didn’t catch me. Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and comfortable cities, but the street scene is quite dull and there are plenty of tourists around the sights even in September.

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Porto

We arrived at the last stop in Portugal, the second largest city in the country, Porto. Although the city has a population of only 240,000, including the suburbs and other surrounding areas, it is already 1.8 million.

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Pico

So, as I promised, I’ll write about Pico in a little more detail, given that I was lucky enough to climb as well.

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Museu Da Indústria Baleeira

I’m on vacation right now within the “vacation,” which means I don’t work exceptionally, and I came for a week to the island of Pico, where there’s hardly any phone / internet signal strength, luckily.

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Why is it so expensive?

It is safe to say that they have brought out everything that can be made from a single fruit. It is said to be pineapple and not orange because the orange groves were eradicated by a disease. The fruit has been given an own, small museum, where the history and tools of fruit growing are […]

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Who is who

One of the benefits of hostel life beyond cheapness is that you can meet great people. Those who stay in such a place are usually open, positive people; they seek each other’s company and trust each other almost immediately. So, there are those who would have to be gathered back at home with butterfly nets […]

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Hell???

The place I came here bears the incomprehensible name of “Miradouro da Boca do Inferno”, which can be translated as “Lookout from the Mouth of Hell.” One only wonders about this because it is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

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Santa Cruz

On my penultimate day in Lisbon, I thought I was getting up to make one of my childhood dreams come true: to walk along a real, kilometre-long beach …