The Big Field Trip

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One of the most difficult things about traveling is learning different languages. It’s uncomfortable when I am sitting next to strangers on an airplane and I want to speak with them, but I don’t know if they speak the same language as I do. Sometimes I get nervous when I walk down the street and [...]

     We have been in Spain and Portugal this summer. We have tasted a lot of good food and had a lot of company. We have enjoyed the summer a lot. We drove from place to place. The first three weeks we spent in Spain were in Alhama de Granada. In Alhama de Granada there was [...]

From The Big Field Trip – Portugal, August 2009

The Portuguese were some of the best explorers from the 15th to the 19th centuries, during the Portuguese Age of Exploration. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail to India, they discovered Brazil and it was a Portuguese captain who led the first successful voyage around [...]