If you want to find the authentic Algarve, you don’t have to look far. Jonathan Bastable travels from the mountains to the beaches in Portugal’s sunshine region and discovers fiery piri-piri, Moorish legend and the wild countryside of its western coast…
Sometimes, when you come home from abroad, it is the sights that you remember; other times it’s the people. I saw some fine things and met some charming folk in the Algarve, but it is the smells and the tastes of the place that will linger most in my mind: the sweet miasma of the ubiquitous orange groves, the heady scent of the wine cellars, the smoky aroma of chicken roasting on coals, and the sharp tang of the fish markets down by the sea. It all makes for a very perfumed country.
Via: CNTRAVELLER
