The bread oven of Portugal

Advantages: A land that hasn't changed for centuries
Disadvantages: May be too hot for some and too lonely

...The wide expanse of Portugal that is the Alentejo covers about the third of the country and is the most thinly populated area. Often called, 'the bread oven of Portugal,' it is one of the hottest places I have ever been to. The heat at times is unbearable and the only word I can use to describe the heat is blistering. Yet the winters can be freezing and you will often see men and women walking...

Praski 22.05.2010 15:09 · Read review
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Review of Alentejo (Portugal)

Graceful Portugal

Advantages: Relaxing, hot, beautiful scenery
Disadvantages: very steep streets, mad drivers

...I went on my first holiday aboard in 20yrs last year, with my sister, her husband, and their family - to Portugal, we stayed in an apartment complex a few miles out of Lagos - We were only there for a week and had a day trip into Lagos - we caught the local bus, which was air conditioned, but was a bit rickerty, the journey took us about 40mins, through very narrow streets in places. At one...

arnoldhenryrufus 17.07.2005 16:21 · Read review
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Review of Lagos (Portugal)

A slice of old Portugal - catch it while you can

Advantages: Quaint, traditional, great beaches, tasty fish
Disadvantages: Gets very busy with visitors in summer

...one with their daily catch. Later on throughout the morning barbecues and wood stoves would be lit to cook the fish and the smell of olive oil, rock salt and pine and eucalyptus was and still is so evocative and one I have never forgotten. My friendship with Ferragudo was rekindled again when we actually moved over to Portugal to live. Every month a boot sale was held in the main square...

Praski 01.02.2011 14:26 · Read review
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Review of Ferragudo, Portugal