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My Days in Lisbon Portugal during Pandemic.

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  My Days in Lisbon Portugal during Pandemic. Raticanta Mandrencar. I traveled to Portugal in October 2020 and landed in Lisbon. It was a compulsion and not as a choice or travel trip. It was after my wife’s death, in July 2020, that,  I was left alone and my children forced me to leave Goa to be with them either in the USA or in Portugal.  My wife and I had been married for the last 40 years and her sudden cancerous death was a severe blow to all our family members.  It was a pandemic wave throughout the globe and the worst was in Goa-India, where I was based. It was Goa's health system that had collapsed completely and the spike in the death rate was rising. The USA and Europe were going through the Covid-19 shock wave as well. Luckily,  Lisbon in Portugal was perceived as somewhat safer and better, then where I was in Goa and obviously, one of my offspring residing in Lisbon, convinced me to take a flight to Lisbon and that’s how I landed here. Being in Lisbo...