Wow! What great photos! Thank you for sharing and for the history lesson. I had no idea about the earthquake and tsunami. The architecture really is beautiful there too ;) Portugal has always been on my list of places to visit, but now Lisbon has moved up a few places :)

I found your post because @headchange featured you in our Pay it Forward Curation Contest and I'm so glad he did. I'm one of the judges so I get to see all kinds of awesome posts that I probably would have missed out on.

So I have to ask, why are you doing the solo travelling?