Hi Geoff, Yes, we were due to fly out early Jan too - rolled over twice from flights planned earlier this year.....We did get an email changing our outgoing flight from Luton to Gatwick and, like you, changing from a civilised pm flight to a red eye 7.30am flight but..... not changing our return fli...

Nice pic of cvo beach in the Travel doctor section of The Times newspaper today: warning of excessive fees by HomeAway (taken over Owners Direct), AirB&B etc. Ref my posts a couple of years ago advocating new company SimplyOwners.net. This company set out to replace what had been the successful form...

Yes, we provide this information for all our paying guests. The info goes to Tax Angels, the finance agents/accountants that submit our tax returns and who also send this info re guests to the relevant department. I’m sure someone (Biffa?) will clarify who the form has to go to if you can’t find thi...

Excellent new restaurant just behind Brady’s Irish bar off restaurant Hill. Not that cheap (20E for speciality pork and clams dish) but delicious. Nice peaceful outside dining area round the pool. Just as well that they have a guy standing on the street inviting people to come and try it or we would...

I think QdP would be happy for your custom - don’t know what the charge would be but it’s got to be less than the main tennis club as the QdP courts are not in very good condition. In response to our requests for the net tape to be mended on at least one of the courts (which did eventually happen) t...

Don’t know how I have never come across this shop before. (Apparently they have been there for 50yrs!) Great aladdin’s Cave of a place with large selection of towels, bed linen and furnishings. Have just ordered a load of replacement stuff for our villa. They even sewed hanging up loops onto the T-t...

Have sent you a PM.

Thanks very much to Su and Mike for organising the walk and such gorgeous weather this morning - sunshine and clear blue skies followed by excellent 7.50E lunch. Very handy to be shown the route ‘over the top’ which we hadn’t done before - fabulous views across to Monchique hills. Look forward to se...

Hi Sue, we are game for this so please count us in - Alison, Jim, David and Diane. Also for the lunch thank you.

Sorry we’ll miss you this time Geoff.

Yes, really sad. Have just spent much of today trying to help a family who were due to be staying in our villa for the October half term holiday - alternative flights are now priced at double what they originally paid - so they may decide to cancel the whole holiday.

What a missed opportunity (and an enormous waste of money): We tried to use the Bewegen Lagos e-bikes from the Carvoeiro beach kiosk today - complete failure. It all sounds very organised on the website, we downloaded the app no problem but when we came to enter the bike number in order to receive a...

Hoping it is not too early to breathe a sigh of relief........Ryanair have just posted a list of all the flights that will be cancelled over the next month on their website and, unless I haven't looked carefully enough, flights to and from Faro do not seem to be there - Phew! What a shame however fo...

We've been watching the Ryanair news re their latest example of arrogant disregard for their customers with some concern: We avoided using Ryanair for many years just because of their previous reputation for messing customers about and only recently braved booking with them again. Having arriving in...

More info for visitors to Carvoeiro in August: https://www.myguidealgarve.com/events/xiv-feira-medieval-de-silves 6pm - midnight. This colourful and vibrant festival centres around Silves Castle and takes over most of the town. It attracts visitors from all over the world who come to dress in Mediev...

A reminder for newcomers to Carvoeiro: the 23rd annual Sardine Festival is on next week, 2nd-6th August 2017 along the riverfront at Portimäo.

See link:http://www.carvoeiro.com/Guide/Sardine%20Festival