Look closely, and the forest reveals itself as a playground. A brook appears from between dense branches, blanketed white by mats of water-crowfoots: a pool for two basking turtles, a slide for ...

“Hey, New York!” called out my Algarve boat tour operator, pointing across the blue-green water to the clifftop Fortress of Sagres, one of the westernmost points in Europe. “You could leave from there ...

A series of walking festivals and cultural programmes aim to lure visitors to the Algarve’s woodland interiors and pretty villages to help boost tourism year round The Guardian’s journalism is ...

The last time I visited Portugal’s Algarve region was in 2001. I was studying abroad in Spain and during the program’s spring break, 12 of us hopped into three rental cars and caravanned over the ...