Porto Santo

Porto Santo Island’s summertime festivities begin with Saint John’s Day celebrations.

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There’s more sun than Cornwall – temperatures in the twenties tempered by an Atlantic breeze, and, crucially, there’s no time difference from the UK. What’s more, from last week, it became a three-and-a-half-hour hop away, with the introduction of a new charter to Porto Santo.

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In the Largo do Pelourinho – the main square of the principal town on the Portuguese island of Porto Santo – I sat, communing with a charming and ancient one-eyed dog, wondering if the little town would ever wake from its afternoon slumber. Tumbleweed moment. But that’s the way in Porto Santo, a sleepy hollow [...]

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