For the past 40 years, Antonio Tente has been driving taxi cabs round Portugal's atmospheric capital, Lisbon. He's not a ‘city boy’ but comes from the beautiful mountains of the Serra de Estrela....
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06/12/2013 16:46:34
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We asked Cristina Van Zeller, who runs Casa de Vilarinho – a delightful manor house hotel on our Valley of Gold holiday – to describe her favourite walk:
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13/11/2013 09:35:28
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António Costa José is a quiet, undemonstrative man, happy and content to be living with his wife Idalia in the small town of Vila Nova de Milfontes on Portugal’s Alentejo coast. They run Casa do Adro, one of the wonderful, yet uniquely different, guesthouses that feature on our walking holiday along the Costa Vicentina.
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12/11/2013 17:17:05
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Motorways are motorways, pretty much wherever you go the world over, so when we decided to explore the beautiful island of Madeira by car one day on a recent visit (we were there to go walking but couldn't miss the chance to have a drive, too), we were determined to follow the old roads as much as possible...
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19/09/2013 12:39:27
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People from Yorkshire tend to think that this is the “best county” in the UK in which to live, work, rest and play, dare I say “God’s own country”. And I have to admit I’m one of them (even though I was born in Devon and have lived all over the UK in the intervening years).
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06/09/2013 13:40:51
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