Ignorance about Portugal
What do I know about Portugal? Trying to answer that question in advance of a short trip to the Algarve in January, the reply I had to give myself was “very little”. This was to be my first visit to the country, apart from a weekend break in Lisbon some years ago. I chiefly remembered Lisbon as a city where it was possible to walk to most places where a weekend visitor might want to go, so long as one didn’t mind labouring up a lot of very steep hills.
