From our guide to Portugal
Type of Accommodation: Bed & Breakfast
Here, on the edge of a village in the Serras de Aire National Park, you can explore caves where dinosaurs left footprints. Completely rebuilt from a small village house...
Alastair Sawday Publishing has created 18 Special Places to Stay guides. This is the online version of our books. Every one of the 5,000 properties in our guides has been visited by us and chosen because we like it, and its owners. Browse our honest descriptions to help you find your Special Place.
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What About China? is the latest title from our Fragile Earth series and it explains why we must all do our bit to halt climate change.
"An excellent debunking of the myths that justify inaction." The Ecologist
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