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Great Portuguese weekends are made of this
In my native UK, there’s a town called Battle, which commemorates the Battle of Hastings where, in 1066, (as most schoolchildren of my era would know) England’s King Harold famously took a lethal arrow to the eye, making Norman conqueror William the new …