It’s safe to say I have a soft spot when it comes to Portugal. The country where your life was saved tends to have that effect!

But embarrassingly, I’d spent so much time in the Brit-filled Algarve on warm weather training camps as an athlete, that I’d only scratched the surface of this beautiful place.

That was set to be rectified when, in July 2021, mid-pandemic, I decided to take advantage of Portugal’s hospitality once again, and see a little bit more of what this country had to offer.