It’s been a while since I talked about the weather in Portugal, so today I’m going to talk about winter and spring here in the Algarve. Winter and spring tend to merge together somewhat in Portugal, and these seasons have become rather unpredictable in recent years. The winter of 2009 was so wet that our…
The Algarve is far from a sunshine paradise right now. Summer ended with a humdinger of a wind and rainstorm on Sunday night. We were woken up throughout the night by beating rain and gales rattling the shutters. When we got up on Monday morning, the tops of some of our local palm trees had…
It rained at the weekend. Now, for those of you who don’t live in the Algarve, that won’t seem particularly interesting, but for August in these parts, it’s actually quite unusual. Given that a lot of people move to Portugal for the climate (and it certainly played a large part in our own decision), it…
It seems I spoke a little too soon about the weather. Yesterday was probably the coldest day of the Algarve winter so far. We have long given up hoping for any sympathy from our friends and family back in England with regards to the weather. However, people we have spoken to who have lived in…
It’s time for a little confession. I have been reluctant to admit to this but it is important I give readers planning to move to Portugal a fair and honest assessment of our time here including the good and bad – so here goes: This past week we have been struggling, a little tiny bit,…