The real Algarve: 'A white-washed village adrift in the kissing sea'
AlgarveWith talk of air bridges opening, the beaches, splendid seafood and ramshackle charms of Olhão will soon be within reach again Vitálio, 72, tubby and talkative, brushed lustrous hair, opens his barber shop at dawn. There’s a flow of customers blown in on the early tide – their fruit and veg picked and dug, fish hooked and delivered to the market at the end of the alley – and a handful of older insomniacs, here just to hang.