Spend your holidays in Aljezur!

As recommended By The Guardian which wrote On April 19:

10 of the best family summer holidays in Europe

Monte Clerigo Beach By Alamy

Now Easter’s out of the way, it’s time to start planning your next family holiday. Here are 10 places where there’s fun stuff for the kids plus great crowd-free places to stay

That list includes the Western Algarve, saying:

It’s all about the beaches in this southern region of Portugal; long, wild and often empty, it has them in spades.

Base yourself near the small town of Aljezur and you’ve got the best of the region’s sand on the doorstep – including Amoreira, Arrifana and Monte Clérigo, which are all inside the Costa Vicentina natural park – plus a range of homely restaurants.

For organised activities, book a family donkey trek or craft workshop with Burros & Artes, sign older children up for surf school, book a family activity day with Algarve Adventure or cycle up into the hills to explore cork-oak-forested slopes and small villages, stopping to buy oranges at the stalls that line the roadsides each summer.

And the article includes this photograph of Monte Clerigo beach by Alamy