Trip Reports

Specific people, specific trips, specific durations. The texture of one working week.

2articles · last updated August 2026

Low scrubland and olive trees in the foreground, a white house with a terracotta roof and palms on a rise beyond, hills on the horizon under a clear sky

First Person · 6 min

The first three weeks were a slog: rain, a strange bed, strangers

January in the eastern Algarve sold itself on one dry week, then rained on ten of the next fourteen days and blew hard enough to shut the terrace. The stay only started working in week three — which is exactly why the 28-night minimum is the honest part of the booking.

A narrow village street in low backlit sun, ochre and white rendered houses on both sides, several figures in winter coats walking away from the camera

First Person · 6 min

A weekday in Fuseta: what a working day looks like in a fishing village

Fuseta has around 2,000 permanent residents, a working harbour, and — for most of the winter season — no ferry at all. An ordinary Wednesday in a town that was not built for people who stay indoors on purpose.