Fed up with damp, dreary days and long, chilly nights? Start planning your 2009 holiday and in just a few months you could be relaxing on the beach in the Algarve, sightseeing in Crete or soaking up the sun in Mallorca.
Holidays ‘last thing people will give up’
New research shows that most people still have their [...]
Our overseas team has come up with Ten Top Tips for Travelling on a Budget. Here are the first five, with the rest coming soon……
Go off peak – Save yourself £100’s by travelling outside school holidays if you can. The beaches will be less [...]
Go native – Eat like the locals and discover a whole new dining experience without the added extras. Don’t be put off by the décor – if the locals are there in droves, the food’s bound [...]
Times Online reports that two million Britons were expected to go abroad this Easter, up 20 per cent on last year, with Good Friday likely to be the busiest day at UK airports. According to ABTA, there has been a late surge in bookings for foreign breaks despite the spell of relatively warm weather we have been [...]
The Algarve covers 5,411 square kilometres with some 420,000 permanent inhabitants. This figure can more than double at the height of the summer. Faro is its administrative centre, controlling 16 Municipalities.
It has a south-facing coastline of approximately 155km, with 52 km of coast stretching northwards in the west. At the widest point to the north, [...]