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Back to the beginning: a few days in Lisbon

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Back in December, when Kevin and I were in Canada for Christmas, we planned out a trip that would involve a couple of weeks in Lisbon followed by travels through Spain, all the way to Paris, where we'd then fly back to Cambodia. We booked plane tickets to Lisbon, Portugal for January 4th. Back in…

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Roman Ruins in Canterbury

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Did you know that the romans used to have a giant empire? And did you know that it included a sizeable chunk of the present-day UK? Here's a map: The earliest history of Canterbury actually goes back even further than the Romans, but they seem to have left the largest footprint. Here's what Wikipedia has…

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