Porto Santo

Porto Santo: It’s simple. The southern shore of this tiny island is five miles of pure gold. You walk, slowly, with sand between your toes, getting tanned by the strong southern sun and cooled by the gentle breeze from the Atlantic.

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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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