Dec 9, 2022 | Europe, Portugal
With a few hundred Euros in TAP Portugal credit and no real idea of where to go that didn’t involve connections and long flights we decided to just head somewhere warm and that we’d never been to before. The Algarve sounded like that destination....
Feb 8, 2018 | Europe, Portugal
The time being slightly after 8am during the week and having no espresso maker in our Funchal airbnb rental it was time for one of my frequent fifty meter walks to the local cafe and grocery store. It would have been far easier to fit in with the locals had I ordered...
Jan 25, 2018 | Europe, Portugal
Having just spent three weeks in Portugal the thought was why not continue in the Portuguese vain and hit the islands, beginning in the Azores before heading down to Madeira. The Autonomous Region of the Azores is located around 850 miles from the mainland and total...
Jan 23, 2018 | Europe, Portugal
Housesitting, whilst not an entirely new concept to us, was different on this occasion due it being our first overseas experience. We didn’t intentionally chose Portugal but with neither of us having visited this European holiday destination before it made the...