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We’ve always been high on college towns in Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in
our travels. We can always count on an Europe.
interesting and lively community, big on We arrived at midday after a relatively
culture and the arts, and overflowing with short drive from Obidos. Again, we couldn’t
interesting eateries that students, professors, have found our way into the old part of the
and travel writers can afford. Coimbra’s city without Google Maps. Highways led into
beauty and history can only be matched by wide, well-maintained boulevards that led
Lisbon and Porto; its ancient buildings into two-lane streets that led onto narrow
climbing the hills flanking the wide Mondego cobblestone lanes where one car has to pull
River. Capping the skyline, like a crown, are over to let the other one pass. Considering all
the ornate buildings of the University of the training I got in Obidos, I didn’t have any

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