In a Faro way town ...

Faro is like every other fishing village on the West coast of Europe and around the Med.
Small terraced houses on cobbled 3m wide streets and loads of whitewash.
Cathedral is pretty ordinary.
⦁ The Arco da Vila - the 19th-century gateway with Moorish portico.
⦁ Toffs house
⦁ Another typical gateway
⦁ Lying on the coast, overlooking the shallow lagoons of the protected Ria Formosa Natural Park
What more can I say? Oh yes, it was full of restaurants with wide-screen TV's offering pizza + pint + England vs Belgium in the Soccer World Cup. A steady procession of red skinned, bare chested English blokes trickled in from the beach to fill them.Read more