Hotel Pestana Alvor Atlantico Faro

... we awoke around 8am) start, it was time to stock up on provisions from the Intermarche, the Portugues version of a large supermarket. We have noticed a wide variation in prices for eg bread which is very well baked,is cheaper than in the uk. the same goes for beer and wine also fruit and veg. not so items which are imported such as alpen (euro 5 a box pg tips euro 2.40 for 80. Anyhow having stocked up we headed to Praia Mos, a little too late to ...

Over the last couple days I've watched my shaky plan fall around me. I don't really know where to go next, and surprise bills are depleting my meager funds. Thankfully I'm stranded in Southern Portugal, its cheap and beautiful, indeed there are less desirable places to be stranded.<br><br>I decide to join a group of young kiwis heading to Lagos; partly for the social aspect, partly because I would like to see more of the coast. Faro ...

<br>An excursion to Lagos&#8217;s Marina followed by a boat trip to Ponta de Sagres (The most western point of Europe, from where the Portuguese sailors started the discovery of new worlds) will allow to enjoy the<br>natural beauty of the rocks, especially the famous and most impressive caves of Ponta da Piedade, wild beaches and the sea waves on the cliffs along the coast and also some of the &#8216;highlights ...

In Albufeira, we went to a Portugese bullfight, not the real deal as in they don't kill the bull, rather they stab them in the back with a bunch of arrows. I thought it was mean, especially the first bull because it was pretty much still a baby and looked scared instead of angry. Jon ...

The kiting in Alvor is supposedly one of the best spots in Portugal, because of a huge shallow lagoon, however the wind was in the opposite direction so we ended up kiting on the sea side in the waves. Exhausting, but very fun to launch off the waves. We met a wicked ...

The west and south coast of Portugal is pretty much a long stretch of beaches surrounded and separated by huge red cliffs and you can get from one beach to another by crawling through caves in the cliffs (I also think that's where the bums sleep at night...) We did some surfing at a small secluded beach that I had been to 4 years ago with my family. We&#8217;re ...

... doing it. Maybe another time. One thing this trip was taught us is that you can't expect to see everything and Spain was revisitable. Now going east we left Seville in driving rain on a busy autopista, through an industrialized area and then back into the drenched countryside. Now we were really seeing "the rain in Spain!" By midday we reached 'Huelva', the last big city in the west of Spain. It was now heavy drizzle and in town ...

... for a reason that wasn't clear to us). See pictures as it is a little creepy. That evening we went to a restaurant to enjoy our last night in Portugal (at least for a while). We sat next to a very loud American man who we believe only knows how to communicate by shouting. We tried a new food experience. Meg ordered pizza with bananas and green wine (both were fabulous), and I ordered grilled ...

... sexual tension between a high school or college age group brought the maturity level of its members to a minimum and their noise level to a maximum until about 1AM. At which time they grew weary of yelling giggling and slamming doors in the name of love which allowed the rest of us including my five room mates to do the same. Finally! Peace and quiet and a good nights rest!.... Or....not. As soon as the love-flusered youths had settled in my roomy with the bunk next to ...

... a great little fort town that manages to be quiant and pretty for tourism whilst not losing too much of its old world charm under signage, vendor stalls and knots of power cabling to do it. This week it is hosting the Festival Med in its castle-bounded old town centre, which is a collection of artists from places like Algeria, Israel, Spain and Morocco ...