I have been to Lisbon 3 times, but only for some days everytime. Arriving by train, your first taste of Lisbon is when you walk out of the train station directly onto the edge of the bay. Mountains rise up on both sides of the mouth of the harbor and then there’s the bridge. Running across the mouth of bay is a bridge that looks for all in depth purposes like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. I have never had an opportunity to research it, but there must be a connection.

I cannot tell you why, but Lisbon is a particularly low stress town on both the mind and the wallet.

This is an interpretation on my part as some feel the area only covers the beaches on the Mediterranean Sea . Whilst this might be accurate of some pieces of the coast in summer time, nothing may be further from the actuality of rustic Algarve.

One of the most important attractions of the Algarve is naturally the weather.

The Algarves summer climate is famous -long, hot bright days, warm tender nights. Once here, most vacation destinations are less than an hours journey from the airfield. But this is only the end of the iceberg that makes rustic Algarve the ideal all year round vacation destination. The Algarves calendar is dotted with carnivals, holidays and festas.

The year starts with the complicated New Year parties on the beaches of Portimo and Albufeira. Feb or March brings Carnival, a 3 day party before the start of lent. It is a great place to be a kid and an adult.

The sole complaint I have is a ton of folks appear to feel the same way.

Its still nice, but I’ve begun to consider relocating. You can stay in a hotel whilst in Lagos, but this may be a mistake in my judgment. Instead, go to the train station and reserve a room with a family. Families in towns all around the globe do this, but Lagos is dissimilar. The family you stay with kind of adopts you as one of their own. Alas, his better half failed to think it was such a brilliant idea. Hey, what about you? We could potentially still get a fair deal. Rick Chapo is with - makers of travel books.