Blog 32: Our Floating Holiday Cottage on the Algarve!
A combination of Covid travel restrictions and several boat problems, in particular a leak in the fuel tank, have kept us local this year. We have spent August and September sailing up and down the Algarve coast visiting and re-visiting our favourite spots. We also hired a car to explore inland a bit. One advantage of staying local is that we were very convenient for Faro airport which meant all our girls and some of their friends could join us for a holiday, which has been lovely. We also managed a long weekend in Zürich, which made a great change – very different from Portugal. We have used the time we have been ‘stuck’ here to explore the local area by car, bike and on foot, as well as by boat. This map shows where we have been We have bought a second folding bike so we both have land-based transport now as well as water-based. We also hired a car for a week and took the opportunity to explore a little inland and up into the hi...