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Celebrities, newborns, the deceased, and everybody in between have one thing in common—the tendency to leave behind peculiar things after a holiday. Of course, certain items appear more frequently than others: cell phones, ipods, pyjamas and sex toys are frequently forgotten in the shuffle to check out. Here are some of the weirdest things left [...]

Fortunately you haven’t left it too late!  Here are some of the best villas we know in the Algarve with two weeks availability in the summer school holidays.

Two charming new houses in Tuscany:

Villa Il Conte is literally 20km from Florence: on a clear day you can see Brunelleschi’s Dome from the garden.  Restaurants and shops are an easy walk. It is a modern and comfortable house but with a real history:it was a hunting lodge of the Medici family and the neighbouring [...]

What’s the discount?  I like the villa, but how much will you give me off?  Somebody else is offering me a 30% discount and you’re not offering me anything.

Most of the time we don’t do discounts: the price we advertise is carefully worked out so that it is competitive (OK usually not cheap, but they [...]

True story:

“What fantastic views” we enthused, trying to ignore the clouds of dust that were blowing in front of it, and trying not to look them other way. The views in one direction were indeed of the highest quality, as was the villa that we were being asked to offer, but the earth was [...]

The Algarve Resident recently highlighted the issue of new government regulation in Portugal.

The largest island in the Caribbean, second only to Cuba, with a commercial existance not wholly dependent on tourism.

A hundred very beautiful islands, 7+ hours flight from Europe. The three we offer are radically different.

The end of the year is statistics time. In the spirit of Glasnost and for the delight of our competitors, here is what it tells us about the state of the world: