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The Ecovia do Litoral runs the length of the Algarve coast. Three sections of it start within reach of Fuseta and fit into an evening — assuming you have the right bike and no faith whatsoever in the signage.
Fuseta's lagoon is one of the better flat-water kite spots in southern Europe, and its wind arrives in the middle of your working afternoon. What it takes to fit either sport around a job — and why the winter half of the season is a paddle season, not a kite one.
The lagoon side of the eastern Algarve is flat enough to be boring and quiet enough to be the point. What running there is actually like before the working day starts — including the months when seven in the morning is still night.
Winter here is neither the sunny escape the booking sites imply nor the shuttered ghost coast the sceptics claim. What actually stays open in the cold half of the season, what shuts, and the rainfall figures nobody puts in the brochure.
Europe spans four time zones and about three hours of clock. A map of where a UK or German working day still lands on a civilised local schedule — and where it quietly eats the evening you moved for.
The Pomar website tells you what the house provides. This piece tells you what the week looks like inside it. Both are useful. Only the second is hard to find in advance.