While others focus on the run up to Christmas and New Year breaks, turning attention to summer now means having the pick of the best Algarve holiday villas. With excellent availability and early-bird ...

Where are they all? That’s what I keep asking myself during a break to the Algarve in high season, when, one is led to believe, half of Britain decamps to this sunny, reasonably affordable, friendly, ...

The Algarve frightens the independent traveller. Package tours and purpose-built tourist towns litter the naturally stunning Portuguese southern coast. Its reputation suggests it only caters for ...

A NEW development in Portugal's relatively unspoiled western Algarve has won several accolades for its method of eco-friendly construction. Alma Verde village and spa is situated on the site of a ...

The Algarve is a region of hidden delights, of golden beaches framed by limestone rocks, of small, simple restaurants with fresh fish, and of a wealth of top-quality family hotels and villas at prices ...

My love affair with self-catering stems from my first family villa holiday in the Dordogne as a teenager. After years of camping in Pembrokeshire or Cornwall (with the traditional first-night argument ...