Helo from Arizona. Well done, great introduction to Carvoeiro, love your videos with details on the Google earth and map references, but most of all very happy to see my good friend Beto Kalulu he is a special symbol of modern Carvoeiro history. Keep up the good work and I will keep watching. Cheers

I love how you do your videos with maps, thats right up my street. Im looking at visiting in August and to sea a birds eye view is so helpful. You're unique in your videos, I wish more would do this with maps. It gives me a real sense of being there and maping it out in my mind. Love it!

Awesome videos, always look forward to them coming out. Thank you.

I'm loving these videos. They are the best for learning about traveling to Portugal. Great work Nick!

Incredible content on the Algarve. Video quality is stunning. Thank you.

So well done as usual!!!! Keeps getting better. Tons of great information and love the personal story at the beginning with the old restaurant you used to work at. Keep em comming.

Really like your channel. A real person with honest info. Well done!

Amazing video, thanks man, you're the best, THE BEST!!! very informative and made me excited to go.

I think this is your best video yet. Loved your story in the beginning. That restaurant must have been amazing. I hope to someday know the Algarve as well as you do. Thanks for all your hard work!

Thanks Nick! Looking forward to exploring Portugal when we are all safe to travel again. 👍

Lot's of great information! We have been in Ferragudo since November 2020 and love this entire area! Everything is so close! We love hiking these cliffs and have done the seven hanging valley trail. And of course many other hiking trails as well. Absolutely stunning!

Carvoeiro, as seen from the water, is one of the most beautiful sights in the Algarve. A photo I took of it while on a boat trip is on display here at my home. Thank you for taking me back there with your video. I loved it!

Thanks Nick, very insightful once again! 😊

Informative as usual. Thanks Nick

Excellent and informative video. Well done. We will be in Carvoerio in April. Can’t wait.

We had coffee and a custard pastry with you yesterday morning in Carovoeira and it was wonderful! That beach and the cliffs are really something special! Thank you so much for the excellent tour and ALL the great info about the whole area. To anyone who reads this, contact Nick to be your professional guide. We highly recommend!!!

I spent the winter of 1968 with my family in a casa on the hill west of the village. It was a simple fishing village with only a few expats. One minute grocery store. We shopped in the market in Portimao. My daughters went to a little international school. Such wonderful memories.

Love these videos mate. Your editing and composition is improving! That restaurant is incredible, the old pictures show how pristine it once was, I hope someone does something to bring it back to its better days! Thanks for the inside info on another geat little Algarve town, looking forward to the next!

You’re the guy, brother. Thanks for these beautiful, helpful, fun-to-watch videos. It’s because of you that we plan to visit - then perhaps retire to - the Algarve.

Great source of information Nick. Thanks

Very interesting and informative video. Thx, Nick.

Great vids. Thanks for the info

Wow that was amazing! I loved it!

There cannot be anyone who loves these videos as much as I do. I love the historical information and I am impressed with your Portuguese (I will never say "Sil vaiyz" again). Muito obrigado, senhor.

Great work mate! Happy to see the channel is doing great :D People sometimes ask us about retirement options in the Algarve, so we will always send them over to your channel when we get those questions since your the expert :) Keep it up!

Thanks Nick, for today's video on my favourite town in the Algarve, Carvoiero. As usual, lots of useful info and beautiful cinematography 👍 Side note: So sad to see what has come of your cousin's restaurant. It definitely seemed to be a popular and vibrant business when you worked there.

Very professional video with a lot of valuable infos. Thank you. Did my first FB Live today. Guess it was a desaster:))

So nice to review those nice places. 👏

Great Content about this beautiful area...

Good vid. When open I used Roma restaurant every Wednesday night great place. Used to be an ordinary villa belonging to an English guy then a Swiss couple bought it and remodelled to a restaurant. The pasta chef was an American lady and made the best pasta, the Swiss couple got bored and went back to Switzerland to rejoin their jobs in the money markets as they felt they were too young to retire here. It was then sold to pestana hotels and the guy that took over was Micheal who I imagine is your cousin, Micheal then went to manage pestana hotels in Madeira and I have met him many times since. A restaurant in monchique then bought Roma, I can't remember the restaurant but it was one of the big players. They then ruined it by changing the menu, putting a bar inside and destroying the mural in that part of the restaurant. It was obviously owned by a bank because as soon as the restaurant stopped doing well it was closed. Sad because I loved it

I used to spend a lot of time in Carvoeiro from 05ish to 2012 and loved going to Roma. Sad to see that it has gone.

HI Nick, How sad to see Roma in that state. We had a house in Areis Dos Moinhos in Carvoeiro about 23 years ago and can remember the restaurant originally being opened, by a Swiss couple (we think). The large car park at the front and the walk up through the gardens. We remember well the childrens play area and 'childrens hosts' to look after the very young whilst the adults could have a beautiful meal. Something unheard of in Portugal at the time. We even remember sitting at one of the tables that were next the ballastrade around the pool as you showed in your pictures. Wonder why it was never bought and developed again. Good to watch your video's, brings all the memories flooding back, many thanks

Thank you !!!!

Great video, thank you

best channel, thank you!!!

I was in vacation in a big house with a pool and it was my best holiday.

Anyone else here liking the Algarve addict videos even before the advertisement has finished playing? 😁😂 Sad to see many properties so run down in the Algarve.

Ah..a trip down memory lane for me😊 I stayed at a lovely villa - Laranja du Sol- from memory it was located along a hilly side street from the beach. It was back in the late 90s when a company called Small World ran singles holidays there- it was such a lovely holiday!

Hello Nick Just subscribed to your channel. Love the content, very informative,, great to see Veronica in this video, just found her also. Can't wait to plan a visit to Portugal later this year we hope.

Great content and love the South African accent! 🤗 I am also from Mzansi!

Hey, great videos Nick! :)) Would love it if you could do one with top 10 beaches in Algarve for us beach lovers! It's good you shared that story with a restaurant. Maybe someone will come and bring that place back to life...it would be wonderful to see that! :))

Great video thanks for the effort and information. I love your use of Google earth. It really helps tell the story. Sorry about the restaurant. I'm sure it was emotional to return there.

Roughly around 80-90% of restaurants shut during the winter. However there is still a fairly decent range of places to try. I spend Christmas there every year. It’s great! Amazing atmosphere highly recommend

I went to Roma many years ago. We drive past it when we are in Carvoeiro, often wondered why it was abandoned.

Great video and beautiful place. Cant wait to be able to travel around again :)

I've been there since the beginning of the 90s... the cliffs are gorgeous: worth spending for a sea view under the moonlight during a summer night . Also missing the best beaches: Praia Marinha and albandeira are my favorites. Benagil was great 20-30 years ago but now it's way too busy. Intermarché is cheaper than Apolonia but you can find more high end food in this one (very nice although expensive wine section). One small restaurant that I like which is opened even in winter is Casa de Pasto do Calvario in Estombar: cheap, great food and always fado on sundays evening. Also check Helydoce Pasteleria in Lagoa and their cakes !

Sorry to see the abandon restaurant. I agree, it's sad to see something so beautiful fall into disrepair. Especially when you have good memories at the location. Hopefully someone will purchase it and restore it.

Hi. Really enjoying your videos. They are the best! Love seeing the history of the places, geography on maps, your stories, everything. I just discovered you although I've lived in Portugal 1 1/2 years, mostly under the pandemic. I have some questions I'd like to ask you about and is there any way I can contact you via an email or whatsapp? I live in Porto now and lived in Lisbon my first year here. Now I am planning to move to the Algarve area. Thank you for your videos and keep them coming!

You have missed Praia da marinha one of the most beautiful beaches in the world (they say 😉) okay you mentioned in the end but Marinha deserves more. Cheers loved to hear you talking about our little carvoeiro, hope you’re still living around here.

Thanks

Great job, Nick. We are planning a mid-October visit to Carvoeira. Will the majority of restaurants/pubs still be open? Thanks!

I don’t know how you can look at the camera .....those walks along the cliffs are a bit tricky. You are lucky to be able to visit .....I had to cancel my trip last November, hoping to get there this October. Take care, and thank you.

thanks so much, we lie in the netherlnads but have started proprties and locations for earlyretirement, potugal is now our favorite, i apreciate the detail and it would be great to have more detail,wewant farm land in middle north portugal, but its nice to beaches to visit when wetake abreak from farm life in the future. would you do a series on farm ife near Algarve beaches? thanks

Hi! Really enjoy your videos and commentary! We will be going to the Algarve in the middle of May. Is it possible to rent kayaks and paddle to the Benagil caves? If so, are the seas calmer in the morning, rather than in the afternoon. Thank you, we are eager to explore!!

You forgot to mention about the sardine factory that there was in carvoeiro where there are now apartments, shops and a bakery called 'fabrica velha' or old factory.

These are great. It’s difficult for me to understand where on the map each town is. A bit about the weather in each area would be really nice and helpful

Sorry you missed the Manel’s night club 😉was around the street, what you pointed was monte carvoeiro where is the pizzeria and the supermarket, remember it ?!

I love living in Carvoeiro. Dis lekker by die see.

Another great video mate. And very nice story at the beginning. Did you ever find out what happened to the restaurant- why it closed down etc? Regarding house prices in The Algarve - it’s crazy. There are some properties on the market for ages, years. They are just priced too high and sit there doing nothing. The sellers just aren’t realistic. Also, some sellers won’t budge on the asking price, or not too far from it, they would literally prefer not to sell it 🤷‍♂️ crazy. Then you see properties priced accordingly and they are snapped up very quickly. Goes to show if you got the right place and it’s priced right it’ll sell.

Lindo vídeo!!! 👏🏻 Infelizmente não sei inglês😰 Sou brasileira e pretendo morar uns tempos em Portugal.

Hi. Great videos and information here. We love Portugal and its wonderful people and spend loads of time there in the off season winter months. Unfortunately with the high Covid19 infection rate it looks like we won't make it this year. Very surprised the Portuguese government didn't stop direct flight from Brazil to Portugal at a much earlier stage. Probably would have saved that variant strain infecting so many local people so badly. We miss the beautiful people and wonderful country that is Portugal. 🇵🇹🇮🇪

Thank you Nick, This was an excellent video tour of Carvoeiro! You explained everything about the area thoroughly. Really a beautiful town with everything I'm looking for. I'm very curious what is the asking price of the restaurant property?

My family and I are moving down to Algarve from Sweden in September and trying to decide where to live 😀 Hopefully, the kids will go in Nobel in Lagoa. Would you recommend places like Albufeira, Guia or is it totally deserted in the winter?

Hi Nick ! I live in Carvoeiro since 1970, and in Silves since 1998, here's a little help with the name of Carvoeiro. Let's start by saying that "carvão" means "coal", so "carvoeiro" is the man who makes coal, or coalman, so there you have it : Praia do Carvoeiro, or "coal man's beach", probably an old reference to this place, this fisherman's beach, where the coal man lived and made coal. I would guess that the Algarve region, since it's early settlers, specially from the VIII centrury until the XIII (islamic period), until the conquest of the Algarve by the portuguese, had allready at least 3 important professions that would include the burning of wood - the man who "bakes" the earth or clay tyles and bricks baking them in a kiln, the one who has a big pit in order to burn limestones to make lime powder (used to mix with sand or other materials to make a kind of cement) and the coal man. As you could expect then, if you would need a kind of fuel to cook anything (olive oil would be too expensive), you would need wood or charcoal, and the second one is a type of fuel for everyday use that may last a little longer the the plain use of firewood, hence the importance of the coal makers and coal as a source of local economy. Today you need gaz or electricity for cooking, in those days wood in the form of coal would be handy... I don't know, but if I was a traditional fisherman in the beaches of Carvoeiro or Benagil, I would find it really handy to know the local charcoal maker, specially if I was a fisherman, let's not forget that fish could always be traded by charcoal ! Let's also remember that in the portuguese times of the discoveries, charcoal had to be onboard for cooking too...No wonder barbecue is so popular today, it surely is an early form of cooking either using a portable grill made out of pottery, for example, like the one you can observe in the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Silves (islamic peiord) or the ones that used to be sold until recently in local markets and fairs. We could talk about the use of metal grills, also popular, but they would always be more expensive, specially in medieval times...

Nice one Nick, great intro to Carvoeiro! Gutted about your cup’s pace looks like a very special place, is it still for sale?

Hi Nick..another killer vid as usual...you know the Algarve like the back of your hand...you could live anywhere; just curious why you chose your town..you love your time on the water; just wondering why you wouldn't be closer to it....too busy in summer? As a single person looking to spend a few months in winter, I suppose one would look for a place big enough where enough restaurants had enough business to stay open and enough activities(post covid) to keep busy and not feel too isolated...liked your vid on Loule....

Where in the Algarve has the most restaurants etc open in the winter?

Hello! Thank you so much for your very helpful videos. I would like to buy a holiday house in Portugal and I was wondering where you think is best for teens (lovely, well-behaved ones!). I am looking at places in Carvoeiro, Vilamoura and Faro - but I think probably best to be in town?

Where is the aroma restaurant located? Has it been sold since your video aired?

Your videos are very educational. I watch three so far. I will be staying in Algarve for three weeks in September to have a feel for different beach town I am considering moving to in 2022. It seems you have been all over the region. What are your three areas you like most? Thank you from California.

Great video, despite the uncharacteristic rain ☔

What towns in the Algarve have things open in Winter, restaurants, things ro do etc.?

Hey, Nick. Another great vid. I absolutely cannot believe that nobody has bought the old restaurant and turned it into a luxury villa. Wouldn't you fancy taking on the project? 😃

If you don't have a car, what options would you recommend that would enable someone to travel around the country. My initial thoughts were to rent in a larger city such as Lisbon or Porto and explore Portugal to find the area we want to settle down in. Right now my two main choices would be the silver coast area and the Algarve.

I think it would be helpful to have more "boots on the ground" scenes, and some interaction with the locals, if possible, not just fellow expats. Your google earth overview of the area and key facilities is very helpful, but this video lacked a personal walking of the town and showing what is really there so people can evaluate if it would work for them. Other than that, I really like your channel and you are easy to watch, not like some others that put on an act. I am also a Jumping Places fan, so would look forward to you doing a collaboration episode with them when they get back from Dominican Republic (maybe get Chris and Carol on the paddleboards or surfing!)

Hi Nick. I noticed there are no screens on the windows in Portugal. How buggy is it? ~ Jen

Hi Nick, great work! Is it easy to find a boat to take me to Praia do Torrado?

Any sites you recommend for 3-4 bedroom homes with about an 1/2 hectare or acre of land?

Hi Nick, My wife and I are looking to relocate and we enjoy your videos. I am an Entrepreneur in America and like to but old properties and restore them back to life. Obviously I am interested in properties such as the Restaurant you showed at the beginning of this video or opportunities like this. Is there other properties and opportunities to purchase and restore commercial properties in this area? Thank you for your time. Steve Sears

Really love this video - just found you on KZfaq. Looking to move from the US to the Algarve and Carvoeiro looks insanely beautiful. Do you find it easy to make friends? Are apartments affordable for someone with about $1800 USD ( about 1500 euro) per month to spend. Edit - forgot to ask: I couldn't tell by the video (which really is so informative - thank you!) - but can you walk the cliffs, even where they're built up with housing? In other words, are the clliffs open to the public to a certain extent?

Hey There...I'm interested in moving to Carvoeiro.I'm Portuguese and have the passport to move easily

1:10 - Turn the music down when you're speaking, please!

Loving your videos, really informative and pleasing to follow. We live just outside Carvoiero and run a sailing school out of Portimao Marina. If you need any info we d be more than happy to contribute to the “what to do” section. We’ ll certainly be passing your KZfaq details on to others. Love your drone video footage too. Keep up the good work. Mark, Learn2Sail.com

Oh we are addicted too! lol

Just bought a place there.

Score = A 📝

So very sad about the restaurant, they should give it to someone to renovate.

Have you been to the KING CAVE?

Great property. Where is it located?

That's sad can be beautiful again... Find out whats going on?

The church had a fortress, on the other side it was a house, Not a fortress. Never eard of it.

Good..... but....

Such a shame about that restaurant. Very strange that they would just let nature take it over like that.

What a waste that property, how can someone neglect it to that point? Why don't you buy it from your cousin? How much they want for it?