If you are interested in love affairs, then this love affair with the Algarve started in 1984, and lasted for twenty seven years. You don't get that length of time in jail for murder! Not always a complete love affair, as some of the frustrations, stupidities and nonsenses which occur in Portugal, could lead most relationships to the point of divorce or even suicide.

However, the author manages to combine the beautiful aspects of this wonderful part of the world with much love, humour, and a realistic and honest view of the Algarve, over an extraordinary length of time, in what is to most British people, a foreign country.