PAUL McGINLEY’S off-course business venture ClubstoHire.comhas launched a new pairs competition which will take place on three courses in the Algarve during May. The three-night, three-round event will see golfers play on Onyria Palmares; Quinta do Lago South; and Laranjal – while staying at the Crowne Plaza Vilamoura, from May 24th-27th. And there is no need to splash out on airline charges to take your golf clubs to.....

 Rachel Collins writes in The Irish Times recently of her experiences learning to surf in Portugal's sunny Algarve. "Thousands of hardy souls follow the waves around the Irish coastline," she writes, "but for rookies sacrificing themselves to the sea, the warmth of the Algarve makes it the perfect place to learn." The "friendly, welcoming atmosphere" at Lagos, near Faro - with direct daily flights from Dublin - will surely put any surfing beginner at ease, as well as making for

The introduction of tolls along the Algarve’s only motorway, the A22 has had the side effect of generating more traffic on the EN125, but after little over one month since the charges came into place, many businesses have not seen the increased trade they were hoping for while congestion and danger have returned. Travelling up the A22 is an easy ride with barely any traffic nowadays, but move onto the EN125 and the scenario is a very different one with countless cars, vans and lorries driving past roadside stores and homes at speed.

Your holiday home anywhere in the Algarve region of Portugal can be advertised free for 4 months -thereafter just £35 /year.

The Algarve has been voted as having the best value for money as a golf destination in Europe, ahead of Turkey and the Costa Brava in Spain, according to readers of the British magazine ‘Today’s Golfer’. The region received 32 percent of 3,276 readers’ votes for the Today’s Golfer Travel Awards, according to the ........

The view of the Atlantic ocean from the cliffs of the Albufeira is impressive.See impressive photos.

Huge concrete skatepark located in the sports area of ​​the town of Albufeira, Portugal. As shown in the pictures, this park has almost everything, planters, curbs and handrails of all types and sizes, a short bowl, a snake-run with deep-end bowl (and "over-vert"), banks, pyramids, ... In short, a paradise of meters and meters of skatepark, 100% recommended, if you have a chance to go, do not hesitate for a second.

Club Albufeira is not a club requiring membership -it is a very popular holiday resort in the Albufeira region of the Algarve,Portugal. It has four superb pools and tropical plants and on-site restaurants.

The epic fundraising challenge is set to begin on January 14 with the super fit amateur athlete setting off from Lagos in the Algarve, Portugal with the intention of running over 2,600 miles, eventually ending up in London in a 100 days. The Portugal to England challenge will see the runner set off across the stunning coast of southern Portugal before heading across northern Spain, over.......

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Blue Valley Car Hire are an independent company offering low cost car hire in the Algarve and other locations in Portugal at highly competitive internet car rental prices. Use our online booking engine to compare quotes from the leading car rental companies in Portugal. Cars can be collected or dropped off at Faro Airport or at any major location in the Algarve or other areas of Portugal. Get an instant online quote for car hire from Faro Airport or any location in the Algarve or mainland Portugal using ......

Portugal’s southernmost region of Algarve, a popular destination for tourism, was named one of the top preferred travel destinations for 2012 by the New York Times. With a mild climate year-round – its temperatures fluctuate between 25 °C in winter and 48 °C in summer — Algarve comes in 29th place in a list of 45 ideal destinations which ...

Here are some of the main wines and liqueurs of Portugal, which are known to most people.   Vihno do Douro and Port are both produced in the Douro wine region. This region is centered around the Douro river in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. It is sometimes referred to as the Alto Douro (upper Douro), as it is located quite a way upstream from Porto.   Port is well known and drunk throughout the world, there is a whole lot of interesting facts about Port that will come in a future article.   Vihno do Douro is a table wine from the Douro wine region. Originally these wines were bitter, but the English started to add Aguardente to the wine to help them survive the long voyage from Portugal to England. The tast of the wine was of course changed, which was the reason for its success. In the 17th century it was already widely exported. Today, Douro wines are very good wines, similar to port wine. Barca Velha is considered to be the best Portuguese wine and one of the best wines in the whole .....

During the month of October 2011 more than 470,000 British tourists stayed in hotels in the Algarve; more than three times as many than the next largest group of foreign visitors that month, the Germans. That month, just under 350,000 Brits flew into the Algarve’s Faro Airport. A total of 348,248 British citizens were registered as having arrived at the airport in October 2011, up 9.8 percent in relation to figures from the same month in 2010. The majority of them chose to fly with Irish low-cost airline ....