The beaches in Sao Torpes mark the beginning of the “Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina”. Arriving from Lisbon, leaving the IP-8 you hardly can believe that, as you have to pass through horrible landscapes of refineries and camps of all sorts of various tanks, one more ugly than the other. The last …

Shortly before we left the “Herdade da Martinha”, we asked Suzanna and Alfredo where to go so as to get the best fresh fish in Vila Nova de Milfontes. The only two recommendations we had so far, were “Tasca do Celso” and “Conversas com Sal”. Both not really dedicated fish restaurants and furthermore only opened …

It chilled down, the typical July heat gave way to damp-coldish sea air and you already could guess the early morning fog of next day. You’d like to hide yourself and simply enjoy some nice food. The “Sitio do Rio” is exactly the place for that. Low built into the dune landscape it’s a perfect …

It was a windy day in October, back in 2002 and Aljezur was our last destination on our way back to Lisbon, a last stopover full of atmosphere after a nearly two months trip through Portugal. We were sitting in the restaurant “Ruth o Ivo”, we had enough to eat and felt content and were …

With regard to recommendable restaurants in Odeceixe, we actually could cut the long story short as in all the recommendation lists of Portuguese travel media and restaurant guides there is only one tip: the Taberna do Gabao which is located almost secretly in one of the numerous alleys of the old quarter of Odeceixe. Yet …

That’s exactly how we envisaged it: there is a new restaurant, down by the Tejo river, in a rather sloppy neighborhood of Lisbon though, named Cais do Sodre, a former red-light district, a station area and ferry terminal. The “Restaurant Ibo”: old brickworks, reconstructed, stylish renovated, with generous facilities, a little terrace, directly at the …