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Rick Steves: Blog Gone Europe, Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:06:16 GMT

Wasting Away on the Algarve

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To commemorate the Smithsonian Presents Travels with Rick Steves magazine ' now on sale online, and at newsstands nationwide ' Rick is blogging about the 20 top destinations featured in that issue. One of those destinations is Salema, on Portugal's Algarve Coast.

I can close my eyes and feel the salty ambience of Salema: The tall, fresh-squeezed orange juice of the loss-leader breakfasts where I put my feet up on the rusty railing, gaze out at the sea, and wonder what I'll do today.

Actually, since I'm usually in Salema updating my guidebook, my options are all work-related: find a desolate beach farther north, on the windy side of Cape Sagres; venture up into the modern part of town to see how soft prices are for the modern hotel scene; drop by expat Brits in the next town, where those on humble retirement accounts live like kings with everything you could want in Portugal except a sea view.

I do fantasize about just being here on vacation. Nursing a drink in a still-wet bathing suit. Going out with Sebastian to haul in the octopus pots. Hiking to the beach where you expose skin that's never seen the sun. Getting to the point where you can competently discuss the quality of the fish soup in each beachfront restaurant.

I was going to say there are just a few places in Europe where I could savor a true vacation. But then, when I think about it, there are many. But for a beach break ' simply wasting away in a European Margaritaville ' it's fair to call Salema, on Portugal's Algarve, my favorite.

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