http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk LIFE in a fourbedroomed farmhouse in Bedfordshire might seem idyllic enough but Huw Leyshon and Lisa Duke dream of something more. Systems analyst Huw and art director Lisa are in their thirties and want to trade their pounds 350000 Victorian home for a place in the Algarve after a savings windfall. Apart from the obvious appeal of yearround sunshine and glorious beaches Huw and Lisa hope that life in Portugal will give them the opportunity to improve their golf handicap. Were m http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/Homes_From_UK_to_the_ALGARVE.htm THE Algarve frightens the independent traveller. Package tours and purposebuilt tourist towns litter the naturally stunning Portuguese southern coast. Its reputation suggests it only caters for sunstarved pensioners sexcraved teenagers and golfing bores. But we had been promised another side of the Algarve a family holiday just an hours drive from Faro in a villa in the hills. We would enjoy constant sun a view a cook a maid a pool and a masseuse. We sped along http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/THE_INDEPENDENT_TRAVELLERS_GUIDE_TO_The_Algarve.htm One of the more unexpected consequences of a globalized economy has been the propensity of the British to export our property boom to some select faraway places. The verdant golf developments of Portugal with their fairways lined with elegant villas luxury hotels and sea views long ago became in part at least enclaves which will forever be England populated by determinedlooking Home Counties types typically to be found striding across the greens sporting baseball caps and those short http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/Afternoon_tee_on_the_Algarve.htm British buyers on the Algarve isnt a new story this stretch of the Portuguese coast has long been a favourite with Brits. 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Yet this fourbed http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/TRAVEL_SPLASH_OUT_ON_A_VILLA_WITH_POOL_ON_A_VILLA.htm THE PROBLEM Lisa and John Jenkins want to get away from it all in the Algarve but are finding that new homes there tend to be in urban areas. They have a budget of pounds 700000 For years my husband and I have taken our holidays in the Algarve. Initially we went because of my husbands love of golf but while being a golf widow I began to explore the countryside and felt very much at home. The locals are friendly and English is the second language and widely spoken. The http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/HOUSE_HUNTER_We_want_the_untouched_Algarve.htm FORMER Liverpool footballer John Aldridge and his wife Joan own a threebedroom villa at a resort near Lagos on the western Algarve. They bought the property four years ago from Oceanico an Anglo Irish developer with a string of schemes along the coast. Its one of the best things Ive ever done says John a keen golfer who is investing in property in the area. We manage to visit four or five times a year and we have two older children who come out by themselves. http://www.cheap-portugal-villas.co.uk/Buying_a_property_on_the_western_Algarve_was_one_.htm STRETCHING from its border with Spain in the east to the westernmost tip of Portugal the Algarve coast remains a favourite among Britons. The climate averages nine15C in winter 2028C in summer and with golfers arriving before and after the heat the season runs from March to November. Prices quoted are per person for seven nights BB in September two sharing flights and transfers. 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